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GC: Why do you think it's not biologically essentialist and biologically deterministic to define sex on the basis of gametes and sex organs?

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[–]SnowAssMan 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (35 children)

"In the study of transsexualism, the essentialist idea of a feminine essence refers to the proposal that male-to-female transsexuals are females trapped in male bodies"

Our existence is due to, & dependant on the existence of sex. Congenital disorders & mutilations don't dispute that, in fact they prove it, by being congenital disorders & mutilations.

For instance, if two people are born, one with legs & one without legs, which one has a congenital disorder? Is being born with legs a congenital disorder? If not, then human beings must be bipeds, while those born without legs have a congenital disorder. If someone gets their legs surgically removed in order to alleviate their body integrity identity disorder that doesn't mean they haven't mutilated themselves.

[–]HeimdeklediROAR 1 insightful - 10 fun1 insightful - 9 fun2 insightful - 10 fun -  (34 children)

Neither. Disorders are social constructs

[–]BiologyIsReal 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (33 children)

Is COVID-19 a social construct, too? Are vaccines a social construct, too?

[–]HeimdeklediROAR 1 insightful - 9 fun1 insightful - 8 fun2 insightful - 9 fun -  (32 children)

I mean yeah, species are a social construct

[–]kwallio 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

THis is actually not true, indigenous tribes and scientists have compared notes regarding the numbers of types of plants and animals in a given area and come up with the same types. The species concept may have issues in certain edge cases but as a whole it has held up. Species are real.

[–]HeimdeklediROAR 2 insightful - 8 fun2 insightful - 7 fun3 insightful - 8 fun -  (6 children)

No they aren’t, the species concept doesn’t hold up a clearly shown by the sorites paradox

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 7 fun2 insightful - 6 fun3 insightful - 7 fun -  (23 children)

You're a social construct

[–]HeimdeklediROAR 2 insightful - 6 fun2 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 6 fun -  (22 children)

Yep. Buddhism yo, the self is an illusion