So, contrary to what you said before but consistent with what you said here, men who have undergone an orchiectomy HAVE actually changed sex from "male" to "asexual"? Right? Also, pre-pubescent boys are not "male" since they do not produce sperm. Right?
You had to go back to 2014; the understanding of sex has evolved (!). In fact it's not difficult to find statements to the contrary today. But EVEN BY YOUR OWN DEFINITION there are individuals who have changed sex. But here's the current understanding:
"The National Institutes of Health defines biological sex (“assigned sex”) as “a multidimensional biological construct based on anatomy, physiology, genetics, and hormones,” also referred to by some as “sex traits.” All animals, including humans, have a sex."
I know you'll argue everyone is coopted by the "woke agenda" but the point still stands.
🙄 "asexual" is NOT the same as "sexless" -- you might invest in a dictionary, and learn how to use it. Here's the Google/Oxford-Language definition for the first:
"asexual: 1) experiencing no sexual feelings or desires; not feeling sexual attraction to anyone." And: "2) (Biology): (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of gametes."
And, yes, the prepubescent are likewise sexless. Here's an article from the Wiley Online Library by a trio of biologists who say the same thing:
WOL: "For instance, a mammalian embryo with heterozygous sex chromosomes (XY-setup) is not reproductively competent, as it does not produce gametes of any size. Thus, strictly speaking it does not have any biological sex, YET. [my emphasis]."
As for the NIH, they're a bit of a joke -- in bed with Anne -- "five sexes" -- Fausto-Sterling, and they also insist that "every cell has a sex" -- sure would like to see a liver cell produce any ova or sperm 🙄 :
So, contrary to what you said before but consistent with what you said here, men who have undergone an orchiectomy HAVE actually changed sex from "male" to "asexual"? Right? Also, pre-pubescent boys are not "male" since they do not produce sperm. Right?
You had to go back to 2014; the understanding of sex has evolved (!). In fact it's not difficult to find statements to the contrary today. But EVEN BY YOUR OWN DEFINITION there are individuals who have changed sex. But here's the current understanding:
https://www.asrm.org/advocacy-and-policy/fact-sheets-and-one-pagers/just-the-facts-biological-sex/
"The National Institutes of Health defines biological sex (“assigned sex”) as “a multidimensional biological construct based on anatomy, physiology, genetics, and hormones,” also referred to by some as “sex traits.” All animals, including humans, have a sex."
I know you'll argue everyone is coopted by the "woke agenda" but the point still stands.
🙄 "asexual" is NOT the same as "sexless" -- you might invest in a dictionary, and learn how to use it. Here's the Google/Oxford-Language definition for the first:
"asexual: 1) experiencing no sexual feelings or desires; not feeling sexual attraction to anyone." And: "2) (Biology): (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of gametes."
And, yes, the prepubescent are likewise sexless. Here's an article from the Wiley Online Library by a trio of biologists who say the same thing:
WOL: "For instance, a mammalian embryo with heterozygous sex chromosomes (XY-setup) is not reproductively competent, as it does not produce gametes of any size. Thus, strictly speaking it does not have any biological sex, YET. [my emphasis]."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202200173?af=R
And a couple of posts by a couple of "biologists", Jerry Coyne, and PZ Myers, though they both tend to talk out of both sides of their mouths:
JC: "Those 1/6000 individuals are intersexes, neither male nor female."
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/06/04/sf-chronicle-sex-and-gender-are-not-binaries/#comment-2048737
PZM: “ ‘female’ is not applicable -- it refers to individuals that produce ova. By the technical definition, many cis women are not female.”
https://x.com/pzmyers/status/1466458067491598342
As for the NIH, they're a bit of a joke -- in bed with Anne -- "five sexes" -- Fausto-Sterling, and they also insist that "every cell has a sex" -- sure would like to see a liver cell produce any ova or sperm 🙄 :
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK222285/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK222291/