This is a quote that I saw from a biologist about what biology professors say to themselves. Rather than calling "bullshit" on the claim I think I'll take it at face value.
So what are the other five sexes?
There is certainly a wide variety of sexual variations which makes it very difficult to precisely define what is a male or what is a female. But I wasn’t aware that even extreme variations, such as Swyer Syndrome, may be considered new sexes.
There seven biological karyotypes that do not result in death to the fetus and I suppose these could be categorized as sexes but they're really just variations to my mind.
X – Roughly 1 in 2,000 to 1 in 5,000 people (Turner’s )
XX – Most common form of female
XXY – Roughly 1 in 500 to 1 in 1,000 people (Klinefelter)
XY – Most common form of male
XYY – Roughly 1 out of 1,000 people
XXX - Roughly 1 in 1,000 female births.
XXXY – Roughly 1 in 18,000 to 1 in 50,000 births
So, like I said, what are these other sexes?
As for gender. gender defines society’s expectations about the attitudes and actions associated with a given sex. In order to have more than two genders then one has to define more than two sexes.
Gender is a continuum, ranging from man on one end woman on the other with varying degrees of gender nonconformity in between. But even radical gender nonconformity doesn’t result in a new gender.
I can understand “gender fluid” as an individual that moves along the gender continuum for various reasons. I have no idea what “non-binary” means and transgender is the need, due to extreme dysphoria, to move from one sexual bucket into the other but isn’t itself a different gender.
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