Quote (El1te @ Aug 14 2024 10:36pm)
It's not accurate though. Our position is exactly the same as Richard Dawkins' position: sex is completely binary and is rooted in DNA and gametes - this also carries over directly to reproductive organs, but extremely rare genetic disorders have always existed and we've never denied it. The exception doesn't invalidate the rule. If someone is born with 5 fingers, that doesn't invalidate the fact that humans have 4 fingers. A cat born without a dewclaw doesn't mean that cats don't have dewclaws. It means that it's possible for a cat to not have a dewclaw due to a genetic disorder. It's a disorder by definition. This is literally the same as every biologist until clown world came along and it became a danger to say out loud, less they be fired.
I think the most apt way to dismiss the red herring arguments of mutations is that 99.999%+ of people conform 99.999%+ to a binary sex. If a story is about someone purporting to be magically non-conforming intersex, they aren't. Can probably count the total number of true cases in the world on that 4 fingered hand. Just because a biological male is born with a genital disorder doesn't change their sex, they still conform to a binary sex in their basic biology.