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[–] captainlezbian 7 points 8 months ago

There’s a lot more to sex than chromosomes. It’s probably better to say it’s clustering of positions on bimodal curves of traits. And even then you wind up with weird shit because biology really doesn’t like simple classifications. Like seriously there are so fucking many ways to be intersex and intersex people are downright common.

But also grammatically male and female when used to refer to humans are generally just the adjectives for man and woman.