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From the article... Well, this is on Mars, so I would say it is very probable they are extraterrestrial in origin. 😀

! Moderator Note This is a problem we probably don't deal with effectively. Staff wants you to use the Report function so the threads don't get derailed, then we're reluctant to derail a thread with reports on reported posts if it isn't actionable, but I can see it looks the same as ignoring the report.

! Moderator Note You reported it as a "personal attack", which 3 staff members judged it wasn't . If you want to report someone using a Strawman argument, please be clear.

If sex is not binary, then it makes sense to abolish women's sport, and just have one open category. How can you have a women's category, when there are no men or women, just a rainbow of humans. Then, people with XX chromosomes could start their own competitions, exclusive to XXs.

If you accelerated a particle to a speed which is arbitrarily close but not equal the speed of light, then there is a reference frame in which the particle is at rest. To accelerate in this frame, you have to start all over again.

C. "Go ahead, take the gold medal for weightlifting. And sprinting. And swimming. And . . . . . . . etc. Who wanted womens sport anyway?

With the release of ChatGPT 4 and the development of numerous other generative A.i. platforms, the A.i (re)/(de)volution is clearly upon us. Mass unemployment is one many potential upheavals A.i. could bring. A report from the World Economic Forum in 2021 projected when A.i will take over various sectors: For me, the structural changes A.i. will bring to practically every sector of the economy demand a fundamental rethinking of how our economy is structured. In alignment with the current dialogue catalyzed by Geoffrey Hinton regarding the dangers of A.i. should be a universal discussion on what benefits A.i. must legally afford human society. Such a conversation would be akin to the great Re-Awakening that happened after WW2 in terms of universal human rights and ensuring basic standards for as many people as possible. To cut to the chase, in my view many things that we pay for in society will have to become free in order to make the shift to the brave new world awaiting us. My "free for everyone" shortlist is the following: Basic needs: food, clothing, and shelter All levels of education (as much as a person wants to learn) Transportation Entertainment Utilities such as electricity, water, internet, etc Ultimately the difference between a significantly improved society and a significantly more miserable society rests on our collective decision about what basic rights A.i. should afford each person. How do you see the economy adjusting to the seismic A.i. disruption that is set to take place? Should the social safety net be deepened and expanded, or should it be every man / woman for him/herself?

This is intersex, so this is outside of the binary categories. If you read and understand the article you’ve mentioned, you’d possibly gain a clue. I don’t see how 0.018% is all that divergent from 0.02%–0.05%. One obvious difference in the definitions (in articles 17 years apart) is that one includes hormonal abnormalities and the other doesn’t Yeah, you’d have to read the abstracts of a couple of citations in the Wikipedia article, in addition to the article. Truly Herculean.

I’ll ask you to define “woke” as well. That’s not the extrapolation. Ambiguous genitalia is a subset of the intersex category. (you can read the next passage in the wikipedia article, where they discuss “other conditions”) That wasn’t what the discussion of a spectrum was referring to. Yes, your strawman was silly.

While your intent was to be dismissive, your example does little more than further refute your own position on this topic. You’ve been falsely claiming that sex as a hard binary trait and that counter examples should all be ignored, while others are accurately stating that it exists along a spectrum. Well, you know what else exists along a spectrum? Color, including individual colors like Red which is defined as having a wavelength anywhere in the range of 620nm to 750nm. To make it plain, your stance in this thread is akin to arguing that “only 647nm is red, and no other wavelengths! Not even 648nm or 646nm!! Why? Because I said so. So there! Nanner nanner boo boo. Stick your head in doo doo.”

Dawkins put it quite explicitly. It's a question of semantics. While the vast majority of people on the planet knows what they mean by woman and female, the "woke" brigade are trying to change that, by repetition. Words can be changed by campaigns and repetition. Gay used to mean light-hearted and brightly coloured. But right now, woman, and female, are used by most people to describe people born with XX chromosome configuration. People might not be up with knowledge of genetics, but when they say woman, or female, those are the people that they mean. The huge majority, for whom genetic sex is not ambiguous. Wikipedia : Sex assignment at birth usually aligns with a child's anatomical sex and phenotype. The number of births with ambiguous genitals is in the range of 1:4500–1:2000 (0.02%–0.05%). To extrapolate from that that human sex is some sort of a rainbow is silly. Yes, sexuality is a rainbow, no doubt about it. But at the moment, gay men are considered men. Even though they are attracted to other men, which I would class as a hugely intersex trait. But I predict that it won't be long before that changes. Because words are pliable. What's not pliable, is the occurrence of the sex chromosomes. So why not abandon the words, male and female, men and women, and just refer to people as XXs and XYs? Plus the rare variations. That would probably get shortened to Xs and Ys very quickly. I can live with that.

Binary, in this context, is not the same as binary in mathematics. It merely describes the status-quo, where the vast majority of humans are one sex or the other. To concentrate on such a tiny number of exceptions proves that you've got no substantive argument, and are reduced to nitpicking again. Gender on the other hand is wide open, as I've stated plenty of times.