#Gametes

Clownfish. Sequential hermaphrodites. How to recognise the female: she makes large gametes. Anglerfish. Extreme dimorphism. How to recognise the female: she makes large gametes. Seahorses. Female fucks around while male
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Sex (the fusion of two gametes to produce a new individual) is a *mechanism*, and so it makes perfect sense to define one’s sex in terms of machinery: what machinery
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How do we define biological sex?Sex is defined by potential gamete production: If your body developed towards the production of small gametes, you're a male, and if your body developed
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that is by definition a spectrum, yeshttps://twitter.com/nathankw/status/1389193303267086336 also sex defined this narrowly isnt that useful. the arguments for sex segregated spaces or even the effects of sex as a variable
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I received an excellent question about sex determination, and how biologists classify organisms. Here's the question: "Is it a consensus among biologists that sex is determined by gametes? If so,
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Sex is indeed binary. Why?The answer is because of anisogamy: reproduction through the fusion of two gametes of differing size. Because there are two evolved reproductive anatomies to support two
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Two gamete types = two sexes.Sex is a duality, a pair. In other words, a binary.Watch the full video here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN2-YEgUMg0 "An organism’s sex is defined as the type of gamete
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(Very funny tweet but on a very serious note:HRT does not present permanence to infertility and nor does it guarantee infertility even if your natal hormones are brought down to
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"Assigned male at birth" and "assigned female at birth" are not meant to be stand ins for "biological sex." They're meant to be what you were *assigned* by other humans.
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A short thread explaining why none of these things is transphobic, in any way, shape, or form.1/7#IStandWithJKRowling https://twitter.com/dearly_daisy/status/1308515983162777601 Trans ideology is erasing women, because it is teaching that m
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I stand by this https://twitter.com/tryingattimes/status/1310327722082742272?s=20GC people (usually) believe that "sex" appears at the moment of conception, is strictly binary, and is immutable. But what is it? How do you measure
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So clapped (Stock extracts) I would simply not mention Stonewall 128 times in a short book, nor suggest that trans people are just comforting ourselves by immersing ourselves in fiction
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The sex binary and sex spectrum can actually work together in two layers, but only if one understands how they accurately fit together. The foundation is the sex binary, from
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ateez as specialized cells in the human body; a thread Hongjoong~ Neuron -The neuron is the basic working unit of the brain-A specialized cell designed to transmit information to other
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Cis people are attracted to gender not sex. You ask any person on the street to describe their "type" and they'll describe gender presentation and personality traits. If attraction wasn't
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Okay, today we would like to talk about the words male and female, and how they are used by this account. This seems like an important topic for many people
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