How is biological sex defined?

How is biological sex defined? No matter how long I think about it and how I define it, there are always people to whom the definition doesn't apply.

  • If one defines oneself by infertility, those who are infertile do not belong to any biological sex.
  • If it is defined by the genitals, then people who are born without genitals or who lose them in the process do not belong to any gender.
  • If we define it using the sex chromosomes X and Y, then we would have significantly more biological sexes, since in addition to XX and XY there are also, in rare cases, people who have no sex chromosome or another combination such as X, Y, YY, XXX, XXY, XYY, YYY etc. and people who have different numbers of sex chromosomes in their cells, which is not clearly defined.

Everything else I can think of, like height, muscle mass, or life expectancy, are just static differences. But how is it defined? I'm only familiar with social genders, not biological ones.

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schelm1
2 years ago

Apart from gender, nature distinguishes two forms, namely female and male sex, due to external gender characteristics.

The fact that nature does not always work perfectly at times is not only well known, but also provides welcome material for gender waking in its diverse evasions.

In the meantime, Germany is still legally established:There are more than two sexes! Not all people are men or women. These persons are, for example, not-binary or genderqueer. People who are neither male nor female have always existed.

Since 2018, the gender entry divers (of Latin diversus “unequal, different”) has been a third legal option in Germany and since 2019 in Austria in addition to “female” and “male” which refers to biological intersexity.

§ 45b PStG regulates that only persons with “variants of gender development”diversified“can reach entry or deletion of the gender entry and requires a medical certificate or, in exceptional cases, an affidavit.

Avariel
2 years ago

Here it is well explained how exactly gender is defined and why the new definitions of gender are all logical faults https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2v7-D41AYFI

Zwitscherling
2 years ago

Simpel. Take the definition of the Duden.

(of beings, especially humans and higher animals) All the characteristics that a living being in relation to its function in reproduction can usually be clearly defined as biologically male or female

LG.

Zwitscherling
2 years ago
Reply to  Lisa7949

Execution-incapable people have other physical characteristics, which can be associated with a gender.

Repeat the definition. It’s about totality, the sum of the features.

Senbu
2 years ago

Hermaphrodite is another sex, but this does not exist in humans and is only incorrectly named because it has a certain similarity, however, which is completely different.

Zwitscherling
2 years ago

It has to be on one of them. So it is now defined in biogogie.

If the sum of the female and male features is approximately the same, you can talk about a hermaphrodite or twitter. But this is not a third sex, but a person with characteristics of both biologically weaker.

Styria
2 years ago

XX biological woman, XY biological man.

XXY etc are anomalies, twitters are anomalies and very rare.

Zb a born man with XY can and will never be turned into a woman as well.

One is and remains the sex with which one was born.

Devoid8
2 years ago
Reply to  Styria

in relation to the biological sex, that is true.

However, this does not change the fact that people have a gender identity that does not have to correspond to the biological sex and that gender identity for a human being is far more relevant in terms of quality of life, happiness and mental health.

Styria
2 years ago
Reply to  Devoid8

Irrelevant.

A man can’t become a woman, a woman can’t be a man.

There are clear mental illnesses like a disturbed gender identity, but does not change the fact.

A man who feels like a woman stays a man, no matter if he gets re-operated and takes hormones.

Styria
2 years ago

Because it always happens, see USA.

Devoid8
2 years ago

It may have happened that a person who pretends to be a transwife has harassed women in a woman’s toilet. (Let’s not consider whether this person is really trans, or just claims). Of course it’s a problem.

But is it right that you disrespect all transsexuals and deny their identity?

If a man rapes a woman, did he do that because he’s a man? Or for other reasons?

Have all men earned no respect because a few abusers are?

Does man-his make a man an abuser?

Does transsexuality make someone an abuser?

Styria
2 years ago

That’s not a man on the picture.

No matter, a biological man has nothing to look for in women’s shelters and I’m very happy to repeat.

Devoid8
2 years ago

Do you think women feel better when a man like Buck Angel goes to the women’s toilet than if a transsexual woman does that?

By the way, the majority of transsexual women are not to be seen as transsexual but look very common.

Styria
2 years ago

Since the thing is biologically a woman and also has no penis, either women’s toilet or unisex.

Devoid8
2 years ago

What toilet should Buck Angel go?

Styria
2 years ago

Guys didn’t lose anything in women’s shelters, quite simply.

The thing on the picture looks like a guy but no one.

Devoid8
2 years ago

And should transsexual women be bothered or attacked on the men’s room? (Yes, that happens!)

Devoid8
2 years ago

Okay, then, in turn, should men like Buck Angel go to the women’s room? comment image

Styria
2 years ago

As soon as a man who believes to be a woman enters a ladies’ room, dressing or shower, then I care.

Because a guy has nothing to look for in such shelters, no matter what mental illness he has.

Devoid8
2 years ago

Why do you judge the sex of other people and deal with a subject that has nothing to do with you at all?

Does psychic health care care for transsexuals?

Styria
2 years ago

Why do I do something?

Others do not support their mental illness, to affirm them among them?

Devoid8
2 years ago

And why are you doing this?

Styria
2 years ago

For me, only the biological sex counts.

No is a transwife and never was a woman but is and will always remain a man.

No matter what he’s making or taking hormones.

He may identify himself as a “woman” but that doesn’t make him a woman.

Devoid8
2 years ago

Slow down.

There is not only the biological sex. Our sex is also part of who we are and how we see each other. Part of our identity. It’s called gender identity.

This gender identity exists. She can’t be “polluted” or therapies.

In transsexuals, their gender identity does not correspond to the biological sex. Now I ask you who are you? Your body, or your consciousness, which is only able to think “I”? If a leg is amputated or an organ donation is planted, then you become less self-suffering because your body has been removed/exchanged?

No, we’re our consciousness. That’s why a transsexual woman is a woman. From birth. Of course, never in biological terms. But that’s less relevant.

Transsexuals know that they cannot completely change the sex of their body (but only one aspect, namely their hormone level, which is part of the biological sex). The medicine with hormones and operations doesn’t even try that. It is only about adapting the external appearance of transsexuals so that they can feel more comfortable with their (inappropriate) body.

Styria
2 years ago

That’s different.

Men believe or form one they are women, want also on ladies toilets, showers, dressing etc.

Expect that you address them with female names and and and.

They do not want to accept whatever they do, they will always remain men.

Devoid8
2 years ago

No transsexual is formed, he/she could change the biological sex. Do you think your fellow human beings are so stupid?

No transsexual tries to change his sex. This is not the sense of hormones or operations at all.

Please. If you have no idea, just keep your must for you.

HugoHustensaft
2 years ago

There is no cleanly defined biological sex, clearly defined is only the genetic sex (and even that with special features, see the triple genome).

In biology, human beings are included as a total work of things that are not “hard” but “soft”, so psyche etc.

TsukiWriter
2 years ago

There are of course several features together:

– chromosomes which normally lead to a procreation capability without additional diseases and also do not cause a genetic defect in the child

421054
2 years ago

Only because there are rare genetic malformations and deviations, one cannot ignore the norm (male = XY chromosome, female = XX chromosome).

https://www.cicero.de/innenpolitik/gender-debatte-queerpolitik-aluhuttrager-christiane-nusslein-volhard-sven-lehmann-dopfner

Hrimthur
2 years ago

There are only XY and XX everything else are anomalies and mutations. There are no social sexes.

Darwinist
2 years ago

Defining the biological sex is very difficult. It must not only be applicable to human species, but to All Beings that multiply sexually, for example insects, fungi and plants. The attempt of a generally valid definition is hardly possible.

  • Gender chromosomes are not suitable for definition of sex. In this form, the known XY sex chromosome system can only be used for mammals. For example, there is a completely different system of sex chromosomes, namely a ZW system. In the ZW system, the males are the homogametic sex (ZZ) and the females are heterogametic (ZW), i.e. exactly different from the XY system. In the case of amphibians and fish, both systems are found, in part even within a relationship group, for example in the case of the buntbarian species. tilapia. In the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) the ratio of autosomes to the X chromosomes determines the sex. In many other insects (e.g. haplodiploids) there are haplodiploids, i.e. from unfertilized (haploids) eggs hatched males, from fertilized (diploids) females. In other species, the sex is not determined by chromosomes. For turtles and crocodiles, the temperature in the broth hill determines the sex.
  • Also Gender organs are unsuitable for the definition of the sex, because the different sex organs are not homologous to each other (i.e., identical to origin). In the case of crimps, for example, the male congenital organ (Hectocotylus) is a re-educated arm and has to do with a human penis as little as with a dust sheet of a searose. Also the vagina of the woman is not homologous z. to the vagina of the flatworms.

If one wants to find a general definition of the biological sexes, only the anisogamy the sexes left. The following are defined:

  • Gametes which are small and (usually) movable, which contain few near substances and energy and are produced in very large numbers are male (sperm)
  • Gametes which are large (usually) immobile, contain a lot of energy and nutrients and are produced in a small number are female (egg cells).

Beings can either produce only male gametes and are then males, only produce female gametes and are then females or both forms of gametes produce and are then Hermaphrodites or Zwitter (e.g. snails, most seed plants).