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Ep#189 - Why Human Sex Is Binary - Colin Wright
The Godless Spellchecker Podcast
Sex Is a Binary?
People will often obviously throw in the idea of intersex people and how that contradicts the idea of sex as a binary. I think what a lot of confusion comes from is they're misinterpreting a statement like sex is binary for the statement, every single individual who has ever existed can unambiguously be classified as either male or female. So that's not really what I mean by this. An intersex individual isn't a third sex in the same way that a male or female is because again males and females are defined sort of by the type of gamete that their reproductive systems are organized around to produce. But even if an example could be brought up of this person producing both eggs
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