Adding More Gender Options?

Sorry, those who know a bit of biology know better. Sex is a muddled mess with many variations that all interact with each other and eventually produce a phenotype, which will fall along a spectrum which we have decided one end means ‘male’ and one end means ‘female’ and many people stop thinking then and believe our naming something makes it concrete and real.

Fun fact, the SRY region usually found on the Y chromosome (it means Sex-determining Region of the Y chromosome) will produce a male if it can suppress the DAX genes usually found on the X or if they’re damaged in some way, but the geneset doesn’t care where it is. It can be on a X chromosome, happily suppressing the DAX genes and producing a male, who has no Y chromosome at all.

Biologists know sex, like every system in biological life, is not simple.

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