What are some good and valuable sources to determine that there are only two genders?

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[–]FlickingMarvellous 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Do you mean sexes? I’m pretty sure they’ve made up hundreds of different genders by now.

https://fairplayforwomen.com/chromosomes-biological-sex-gender/

[–]MarkTwainiac 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not clear what you're asking here, OP, so will respond accordingly.

Do you mean sex or gender?

Sex is biology: male or female; boy or girl; man or woman.

Gender is ideology, and now it's also used to mean identity. Feminine or masculine were the two genders traditionally. But now there are tons of genders, such as trans, non-binary, maverique, aerogender, vapogender... Last I looked there were nearly 300, and people are making up more every day.

If you're looking for good sources that explain that there are only two sexes, and why, Zach at the Paradox Institute has made some great, very clear videos. Here are a couple:

https://youtu.be/XN2-YEgUMg0

https://youtu.be/g7mMgykM5Us

https://youtu.be/XLH-y2nLocw

If instead what you're asking is how to "determine" - meaning "to cause "- the sex of any plant or animal, that occurs at the moment each plant or animal is conceived, which happens when a female gamete (egg or ova) combines with a male gamete (sperm). In humans and most other mammals, the sex of offspring is determined by whether the male sperm in any conception has a Y or X chromosome. (The egg/ova always has only an X, and X & Y are the only sex chromosomes in humans.)

But if by "determine" you mean "to ascertain" or "find out" or "tell," it depends on the specific kind of plant or animal.

With today's technology, the sex of a human fetus can be - & is - pretty easily ascertained/found out in utero from 8-9 weeks through the NIPT (a test of the mother's blood drawn from the arm the standard way). This can also be done from 8-9 weeks through chorionic villai sampling (an invasive procedure where a device is inserted up a woman's vagina and cervix into the uterus and a piece of the placenta is taken, then sent to a lab for genetic analysis).

Sex of human fetuses can also be easily ascertained by a non-invasive ultrasound scan from the 14th week of pregnancy, and by the invasive & somewhat risky procedure amniocentesis from the 15th week.

The sex of most humans is ascertained and recorded at birth based on the appearance of a newborn's external genitals, and where the baby urinates from. The setup of the genitals and urethra in male and female humans is very different, so except in very rare cases it's very easy to tell if a newborn baby is male or female.

As for determining the sex in other animals, it depends. Wikipedia has a good entry about chicken sexing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_sexing

Chicken sexers who can tell the sex of newly-hatched chicks "in the blink of an eye" make very good money:

https://psmag.com/magazine/the-lucrative-art-of-chicken-sexing

[–]jelliknight 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You don't need sources, dear.

How are babies made? A sperm meets an ovum. There is no third category, no "Spovum". It's absolutely binary.

Where do sperm and ovum come from? From testes and ovaries, respectively. No ovary can produce a sperm, no teste can produce an ovum. Never ever ever ever. It's absolutely binary.

No human has both functional testes and functional ovaries. No human has ever produced both sperm and ovum. No human has ever switched from one to the other. It's binary.

The act of producing new people is super, super important. All other human achievement depends on it. So the two, absolutely distinct groups - sperm producers and egg producers - are really important categories. The former are called 'men', the latter are called 'women', and the two groups have distinct body shapes, genetics, physiology and hormones.

There are also some people who produce neither sperm nor ovum, but they usually HAVE either testes or ovaries along with the standard body plan for that sex, so it's really really obvious which group they belong to.

Up until this point it's all basic 'birds and bees' facts. You don't need a scientific source to tell you, and anyone who acts like you do is being willfully stupid.

There are a handful of people who have a condition that results in having neither testes nor ovaries (complete gonadal dysgenesis) and you could truly say they're neither sex but they have the same overall body plan as women so we group them with women.

There are an even rarer group of people who belong to one sex but appear to belong to the other (complete androgen insensitivity syndrome). This is the group for whom the term "assigned female at birth" was intended for. With a very simple investigation doctors can tell that they are in fact male. Although they externally appear female they have testes and the interior body plan of a male. We may treat them as if they were female but we're 100% clear that they are actually not.

Sex is absolutely binary. It's the two categories involved in making a new person. Gender is the set of rules, expectations, and imitations we put on the sexes. Gender is arbitrary and changes over time and across cultures. Gender identity is a spiritual belief that a person can be born with a 'girly soul' or a 'manly soul' and when they are born with the 'wrong' one they can tell and they often 'need' surgery and hormones to make their body 'match' their soul.

[–]yishengqingwa666 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

*sexes.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

To be fair, if you live in a western country there are only 2 genders also. In European languages other than English what we call gender is usually called something like sex roles. I'm not sure I've ever seen a western culture have a third gender. GNC people are still either men or women. GNC behaviour becomes a subset of the gender related to your sex, like tomboys.

[–]grixit 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You can't. You can show that there are only 2 sexes, but there are as many genders as people care to make up.