Sex Is Binary
Are sex categories—male and female—real, immutable, and binary? Or are they “social constructs”? Colin Wright, Ph.D. in evolutionary biology and fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has the answer.
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Script:
Asked to define the word “woman” during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2022, Judge Ketanji Jackson famously demurred, saying “I’m not a biologist.”
Well, I am a biologist, and I’m here to help.
To that end, let me rephrase the question to Judge Jackson: are sex categories in humans—male and female—real, immutable, and binary, or are they merely “social constructs”?
Answer: real (that’s just the way it is and we all know it), immutable (it can’t be changed), and binary (there are only two sexes, not three or four or fifty-seven).
This is true throughout the plant and animal kingdoms. An organism’s sex is defined by the type of gamete (sperm or ova) it can or would produce. Males have the function of producing sperm, or small gametes; and females, ova, or large ones. There is no third gamete type. There are only two.
Therefore, sex is binary. This shouldn’t be controversial. It’s just basic biology.
Every one of us is the result of a male and female (our biological mom and dad) successfully reproducing. Sorry to make you think about that. Without the existence of males and females, I wouldn’t be here right now, and neither would you. Our species would have gone extinct long ago.
Many “gender” activists, however, falsely assert that sex cannot be binary and must be viewed as a “spectrum” because a very small number of people have genitalia that appear ambiguous or mixed, phenomena known as intersex conditions. These idealogues claim the existence of such conditions renders the categories “male” and “female” meaningless.
But intersex conditions don’t undermine the sex binary at all because sex ambiguity is not a third sex. The existence of very rare borderline cases no more raises questions about everyone else’s sex than the existence of dawn and dusk casts doubt on the existence of day and night.
Our society isn’t experiencing a sudden dramatic surge in people born with ambiguous genitalia. We are experiencing a dramatic surge in people who are unambiguously one sex claiming to “identify” as the opposite sex or as something other than male or female altogether.
Gender ideology seeks to portray sex as so incomprehensibly complex and multivariable that our traditional practice of classifying people as either male or female is grossly outdated and should be abandoned for a revolutionary concept of “gender identity.”
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A woman is your Mama, your Sister, your niece or your daughter. A woman is an adult female simply put.
"Sorry to make you think about that",hahahahahaha.
Honestly, I'm very surprised that he mentioned the plant kingdom. Plants are known to be very weird in terms of sex and many of them have the ability to reproduce asexually. Animals I could kind of understand because many of them work similar to humans, but I don't see the comparison with plants.
I have a friend with XXY chromosomes. That, my friends, is NOT binary. I also know a woman with XY, she has CAIS. Very pretty redhead.
Also, I grew up with a gay person, and yet I didn't turn gay.
Dennis Prager is fearful of things that won't harm him, yet promotes an ideology that is truly harmful to others.
How many minutes until this comment is deleted?
He's right but nobody is arguing that sex isn't binary. People are specifically talking about gender which isn't binary.
There are only 2 SEXES. "Identities" are preferences for regressive sexist stereotype roles that someone wants to act out. 'Identities' are nothing more than 'personailties' and are meaningless. We need to get rid of 'identifies as' or at least treat it the same as 'personality.' Why should 'gender identity get 'validation' unless 'age-identiy' or 'race identity' do? Is a 50 year old a 3 year old if he 'identifies' as such or is he just a 'pervert?' Can I 'identify' as 'Black' to cash in on 'reparations' by 'identifying' as Black? A male can 'identify' however he chooses, and vice versa, but NO ONE should be forced to play along or treat the person as he/she demands to be treated.
It should be noted that even for the tiny minority of intersex individuals, they are still overwhelmingly either male or female, which is to say, they are producing either sperm or ova. The number of humans in all of history known to produce both gamete types is probably less than a dozen.
IF there are people who are "intersex" in the sense that their genitalia don't present as clearly male or female, what percentage of those "intersex" individuals have some other combination of chromosomes than two x chromosomes or one x and one y chromosome?
was surprised to find you on this account.
'bout time
There are only two genders. The rest were invented by sensitive blue-haired girls.
For once PragerU says something i cam stand by lol
Tham, how are you as a biologist, with PhD stupid enough to conflade sex and gender and not be able to tell if a distribution is binary or bimodal
Not only is separating gender from sex wrong, the same that it is wrong to say that there are more than two types, it’s also pointless. A woman, yes even one pretending to be a man, still has to periodically see an OB/GYN specialist. If a dead person’s remains are recovered after many years of being buried, any person with a basic concept of human anatomy, will be able to tell if the dead person was male or female. How that dead person ever perceived themselves is completely irrelevant.
Acknowledging two types of gametes doesn’t mean sex is binary, it just means gametes are.
Also your definition on transgender isn’t accurate. Transgender is simply someone whose identity doesn’t align with what was assigned
Intersex is usually brought up in conversation because they break down the rule of “sex being binary” sex is more than your gametes, instead, it’s more so your biological profile that pertains to sex. This includes genitalia, chromosomes, hormones, etc… humans have a non binary expression of these characteristics, and the people whose sex is in between, or non binary, are referred to as intersex.
bUt mUh pSyCoLoGy
Nevermind the fact that chromosomal sexual development disorders are sex specific and only sex specific.
Turner Syndrome is the only one that effects females.
The rest only effect males.
Funny how you don’t include women athletes in all of these examples. You are t in the minds and bodies of anyone who is transgender. Stop throwing your opinions around.
Insert standing ovation here
Intersex exists☺️
This entire comment section just proves that people don't even get what the discussion is even about. No one ever denied the reality of sex as a biological thing; when people talk about gender, it is on a psychological and (studies very much suggest, at least for trans people) neurological level
Leftist: "I'm non-binary."
Me: "So it's either "binary" or "non-binary"?"
Leftist: "Yes."
Me: "So, you're either/or?"
Leftist: "Yes."
Me: "The definition of binary is "consisting of 2 parts". So by picking a side, you're binary."
Leftist: "You're racist!"
Well excuse me for my uneducated opinion, but last time I checked, gender is like a personality trait. It ain’t the kids’ fault god gave them their mental illness. If god made a kid act like a sissy, who am I to question god? Just accept it. These kids are mutants, that’s how they were born. I’ve made peace with god’s failures a long time ago. So why don’t you’ll start acting like actual Christians and quit pretending to be the lord? Brother in Christ he’d be disappointed in all of you.
First of all, there are people who produce both gametes. What sex are they? And some produce neither. Second, sex isn't just gametes. It's also external and internal reproductive organs, chromosomes, hormone levels, secondary sex characters, etc. Third, there is evidence for a neurological difference in trans people's brains, so it's not just an identity they claim to be. Fourth, I see the topic of trans women in sports being talked about MUCH more than intersex people. I have never seen any press speak about intersex athletes, whereas I have seen news articles on trans athletes countless times. Someone please cite an example of trans people and supporters using intersex people as a way to distract society from the debate surrounding trans rights. Fifth, this video conflicts sex and gender throughout all of it. Sixth, forcing trans women into men's spaces has been proven dangerous to them. Trans women have really high hate crime rates. Seventh, if a trans woman has been on estrogen for a long enough time, she will not typically have a physical advantage anymore in most sports. Eighth, intersex people aren't actually that rare. The amount of intersex people out there is very similar to the amount of redheads.
"Gender is a FACT!" – J.K. Rowling & Dave Chappelle
Lol look at all the butthurt weirdo's on that dislike bar
Truth is truth reality is reality no how unpopular that may be with the world that tells those who especially the young confused and vulnerable who want to fit in that is okay you were born in the wrong body because God screwed up (even though the world being increasingly more secular no longer believe God exists but blame him anyway fr the ills of the world) and gender affirming surgery will bring lasting happiness. Props to this Colin Wright for taking a stand and defending the truth.
Sex is binary? Really? you sure? That does not accord with science, sorry.
arrest women for working on cars, arrest men for cooking and doing laundry. once a time when women couldnt possibly work as police, firefighters, or active military members. what happened to those binary gender roles?
Someone needs to leran what a bimodal distribution is. It's not that hard really – it's a spectrum that can be summed up as a binary without losing too much information. So it's really both depending on the level of accuracy you want.
Also, it's hilarious he used day and night as a comparison. Actually, there is a spectrum between day and night that is widely recognized in astronomy! There are IIRC 3 different types of twilight that have various applications in astronomy, nautical travel and whatnot. And while they don't invalidate the existence of day and night, if you told someone that day and night are an exact binary with no inbetween they'd laugh at you.
I think it's hilarious how this man is talking down about sex as a binary when no one is arguing that. The discussion is about gender (the social/mental part, not physical) having degrees, not what's in your pants
Sex and gender are two different things. Sex is biological and binary (for the most part- Intersex people exist.) Gender is the social constructs associated with sex. Gender is also a form of self expression. Gender is a spectrum from masculine (associated with males) and feminine (accosted with females) to non-binary expression. Gender is not something to fear. Pronouns are not evil. Some of y'all are just ignorant and refuse to learn.
Also a woman is the gender that is associated with the Female gender. Woman also encompasses a feminine expression.
I know most of y'all will listen to me because you refuse to listen but, I hope this helps at least someone.
this video is predatory and paints transgender women as exclusivly wanting to transition to have advantages over biological woman
gender ≠ sex
Sex doesnt equal gender.
Transwomen who have spent sufficient time on HRT have no advantage in sports.
The right is obsessed with trans sports particiation as a thinly veiled cloak at just being out right anti-trans.
They are using bad science once again to try and reject the existance of people cause it doesnt fit their worldview.
The fact that this video is necessary shows how sanity has departed major segments of our populace.
Take this down. What is this 1950?
It’s really not though. Intersex people exist. Just under 6 million Americans alone are intersex, neither female nor male, from BIRTH.
Sex isn’t binary lol what about intersex people? That’s not male or female, now is it? Also gender is different from sex
Predetermined by God!
No matter how hard you try you can NEVER be other than who you were born to be!
"Sex is binary, except for all the people that don't fit into the binary, who we have no idea how to categorize. But not counting all the people that don’t fit into one of two categories everyone definitely fits into one of two categories!"
I think that that a huge part of the recent transgender craze is cultural. As someone who has lived in and academically studied cultures, Americans have a very binary lens of viewing the world: Democrat vs Republican, North or South, black or white “do you like the food?” “It’s ok…” “So you hate it?” Etc. We live in a yes or no culture. I think that this also affects how we culturally perceive men and women: in that there are two very narrow, black and white, culturally defined views of what it means to be a man or woman (to be a REAL man you must be muscular, assertive, domineering, ambitious, competitive, fill in the rest)
I think that this fad is basically people saying “I don’t seem to fit the narrow cultural stereotype of a man” and thus they swing to the extreme opposite and claim to be a woman (or vise versa). Where instead they should strive to find a middle ground of contentment in uniqueness, and recognize how culture shapes perception (in negative and restricting ways sometimes), and learn view the world in less black and white terms. If that’s true in any way, then if anything the transgender movement is guilty of grossly reaffirming a negative cultural stereotype rather than encouraging people to be free from it, and ultimately be comfortable in who they are. Another reason I think this is true is because a physical man can NOT become a physical woman (as in the video), try as you might, and any notion otherwise is based on a completely false anthropology, and should totally be rejected. So what REALLY is the issue then? It’s all about cultural values and PERCEPTION.
As a man who loves nurturing roles, is not muscular, nor competitive, nor very assertive, etc (i.e. has felt the weight of not feeling like i’m living up to the cultural measure of a man); I’ve learned to be content in my manhood, even thought I don’t fit a lot of the stereotypes that characterize the American ideal of a man. This is because I’ve come to understand how culture influences our values and perceptions so pervasively.
Sex ambiguity, the odd occasion where it occurs makes such people a MUTANT.
Male or Female
Only two sexes.
Only two genders.
This is how humans propagate. No other way.
Everything else is abnormal or a product of cultural marxist drivel
i think i can speak for pretty much every psychologist when i say that lgbtq+ people are fine, and are valid. people of different sexualities have existed for many, many centuries. people didn’t just suddenly become part of the lgbtq+ community one day. quite literally all that’s being taught in some schools currently, is that it’s fine to be in the community. they’re not forcing kids to be trans or homosexual, or anything like that. they’re just saying that kids are valid if they feel that way. i know you guys really like to talk about “basic biology” but have you ever thought about basic psychology? point is, you’re not being forced into the community. as long as you aren’t an asshole towards people in the community, nobody is going to criticize you for being straight. it just seems like you’re spreading lies and misinformation for the sake of being bigoted. if you still think this is “harmful ideology” then you should go to snowflake city. i heard they have no helpful information over there! TLDR: this is a classic prager u video, repeating the same stuff over and over again, even when disproven (sorry about all the text btw lol)
1. Sex isn’t binary, or define what gender people with chromosomes XXY, XYY, etc are.
2. Even if sex were binary, the debate was always about gender, which is a societal concept, instead of sex, which is biological.
I just showed this video to my 13 year old. She said she understood it and she looked up phd 😅❤.
Nobody argues that sex isn't binary what's not binary is gender which is the cultural norms that define men and women which constantly change and differ depending on who your talking to.
Feelings are not facts
The ai told me that then I ask it then what is a transgender then
Im nonbinary so dunno doesnt seem very binary does it
The fact that we’re still having this conversation is ludicrous.
It’s kinda wild that these pseudo intellectual fascists have to pretend like frogs aren’t real. I mean, Nemo’s clownfish dad could literally just decide to become his mom. I’m sure these dinguses have never caught a fish in their life
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