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[–]HeimdeklediROAR 1 insightful - 6 fun1 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 6 fun -  (8 children)

So people without gametes are sexless now Sloane?

[–]loveSloaneDebate King[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

You weren’t talking to me and that’s not even what they asked.

Why don’t you actually answer the questions you’re asked instead of deflecting?

[–]HeimdeklediROAR 1 insightful - 6 fun1 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 6 fun -  (6 children)

My mistake. I did answer. The fact that gametes don’t determine sexual status is clear from people who don’t produce gametes. The fact that an egg cell and a sperm cell are usually required for a zygote to form is not proof that sex is binary, because sex is about anatomy not just gametes

[–]BiologyIsReal 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

The fact that gametes don’t determine sexual status is clear from people who don’t produce gametes.

The fact that some people can't produce gametes doesn't meant their bodies aren't built around the prodution of them.

The fact that an egg cell and a sperm cell are usually required for a zygote to form is not proof that sex is binary

Excuse me, are you saying that there have been babies that were born from any other combination than a egg and a sperm cells? Provide proof.

because sex is about anatomy not just gametes

Where do you think gametes come from?

[–]HeimdeklediROAR 1 insightful - 7 fun1 insightful - 6 fun2 insightful - 7 fun -  (4 children)

Then we’re basing sex off of anatomy and not gametes, and anatomy occurs along a spectrum.

Not babies, but human zygotes have been produced via cloning for scientific purposes, before being destroyed.

Anatomy, which is actually what determines sex status.

[–]BiologyIsReal 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

There are only two kinds of gonads, which produce the two respective gametes, and two development pathways.

[–]HeimdeklediROAR 1 insightful - 6 fun1 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 6 fun -  (2 children)

Nope gonads occur along a spectrum from testis to ovotestis to ovaries

[–]BiologyIsReal 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That is not how it works. Exceptions don't make the rules and ovotesticular disorder is the most rare of DSDs.

https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/ovotesticular-disorder-of-sex-development/

[–]HeimdeklediROAR 1 insightful - 6 fun1 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Of course it’s how it works