When we say sex is determined by gametes, or sex organs, are we reducing people to their body parts and reproductive organs/ability? One criticism I often hear is that people shouldn't be reduced to their gametes and sex organs, that when sex is defined as gametes or sex organs, women are reduced to being incubators, walking wombs, and egg releasers/producers, while men are reduced to being penis/testes carriers, walking penis/testes, and sperm releasers/producers, which is offensive, insulting, dehumanizing, and objectifying to women and men. What are your responses to this criticism?

Defining sex types isn't defining humans. We aren't A sex. We are sexed human beings. Woman is defined as adult human female. Reduction would be to say that women are only reproductive organs. But we aren't. We define women as whole complete human beings. That human word in the definition not only includes our species, but also our humanity and personhood/personality. So anyone that says the definition of women as adult human female is reductive, it's because THEY are the ones erasing women's humanity because they think being female is dehumanizing. Because human is right there in the definition. The only way to reduce women from that definition is if they themselves reduce us by erasing our humanity.

If anyone ever sees the definition of woman, adult human female, and says that it reduces women to body parts or functions, they are exposing themselves. It just means that they don't see anyone with the characteristic of being female as human. They think being female is such a dehumanizing quality, that even being recognized as one means that all your humanity is completely stripped away and you are left with nothing but sex organs and genitals.