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Originally Posted by crocos
No. Even genetically there's variations: XY chromosomes but appears as female - including functioning ovaries, has had children, etc. X only, XXY, Keinfelters, etc, etc.
Also some phenotypes are expressed as mixed - born with both vagina and penis / born with penis and breasts, etc, etc (again, many variations, not necessarily linked to the expressed genetics, and often causing no issues with ability to procreate)
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Irrelevant. None of those factors change the fact that a mammal body is programmed to produce either the big gametes or the little gametes. It’s not a spectrum; there are no humans that are programmed to produce anything other than the big gametes or the little gametes (with the exception of incredibly-rare cases of mosaicism, e.g. you absorbed a fraternal twin in the womb and your body carries the twin’s gonads).
If your body is programmed to produce the big gametes you are female; little gametes, male. There are no in-between-sized gametes; millions of years of competition eliminated them.
Mammal sex is binary and immutable. This is a scientific fact as indisputable as the fact that the earth orbits the sun.
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Originally Posted by crocos
Also sex != gender.
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Agreed. But beside the point.