feels awkward to keep pointing out that "biological sex" isn't real. folks keep making the argument that "biological sex" is different to "assigned gender" which is great, but seriously - "biological sex" is not real. we made it up, just like we made up gender.

what we refer to as "biological sex" is really just a loose grouping of characteristics that is as multitudinous as gender performance itself.

"male" and "female" are, essentially, meaningless terms.

"Maleness" is defined as "having external gonads, motile gametes, unpronounced breasts, and XY chromosomes" but there are plenty of people assigned male that lack one of these characteristics. Vice versa for femaleness.

Sex...isn't...real.

And also, deviations from these characteristics - which, let me remind you, are entirely made up - are considered "disorders of sexual development" instead of, you know, natural bodily variation. Which often leads to unconsenting "corrective surgery" in infancy.

"B-but what about sexual dimorphism?!"

also made up.

why do you think "flat-chested" is an insult for women and "man-boobs" is an insult for men?

because their bodies deviate from what is expected of a human body. but there's no such thing as a "bad body".

I should also point out that compared to most other species, human sexual dimorphism is actually relatively low even among scientists who DO support human sexual dimorphism - we're apes, not ducks and spiders! There's no evolutionary advantage to strict dimorphism for us.

In particular, "male" humans and "female" humans do not have different instinctive behaviours in the same way that, say, "male" bees and "female" bees might - because it's not necessary for our survival. Gender roles are *entirely* artificial and are not biologically instated.

This is what makes me laugh when people say that butch/tomboyish women and effeminate/femme men are "against nature".

There is absolutely nothing in nature dictating human roles. Our species literally does not depend on gender roles to survive.

What our species depends on to survive is *cooperation* - which is to say, altruism and mutual aid.

If anything, hating people for going against an arbitrary idea of sex-characteristics is MORE injurious to the species than the people who deviate in the first place.