If anyone tells you that there are 2-3 sexes in the world I want you to just go ahead and slap them.
I was making a chart this morning, but by the time I got to the twentieth configuration of primary sex characteristics, I got bored and angry, so just fucking slap them. Don’t bother giving them a chart, it’s a pain in the ass to produce anyway.
Here’s some non-chart-form lists.
Primary sex is defined by taking one or more item from each list (roughly, because just as there are double dominant intersex conditions there are double recessive ones too and it’s a whole thing). All potential combinations of these options can be said to constitute their own primary sex category.
Chromosomes:
- XX
- XY
- X/X0
- Mosaic
- XXY
- XXXY
- XXX
- XYY
- Others (there are so many, like I think you can live with up to five chromosomes? So many)
Hormones
- Estrogenized
- Androgenized
- Double dominant (high levels of both estrogenic and androgenic hormones)
- Double recessive (low or no sex hormones)
Gonads
- Testicle/es
- Ovary/ies
- Ovotestes
- Gonads
- Testicular agenesis
- Gonadal dysgenesis
- Probably more, I’m not a professional here
Genitals
- Penis
- Vagina
- Pseudovaginal pouch
- Clitoromegaly
- Micropenis
- Hypospadias
- Diphallia
- Definitely more but I am Tired™
There’s like at least several dozen primary sexes, and that’s before secondary characteristic development comes into play and the point is biological sex is a fucking mass hallucination. Slap anyone who says otherwise.
(This is not a professionally sourced and cited resource post please do not treat this like it’s some kind of all powerful reference work I literally just made it in a fit of rage in abt ten minutes based on stuff I already know I didn’t even research it be careful use google etc and so forth)
#;-; THAT IS SO CONFUSING (– @all-the-ships-all-of-them )
It so is? Like it’s just ridiculously confusing and complex.
WHICH IS WHY PEOPLE WHO SAY IT’S SIMPLE AND COMES DOWN TO “MALE OR FEMALE”/”MALE, FEMALE, OR INTERSEX” NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP AND ACCEPT THEIR SLAPPING PEACEFULLY INSTEAD OF SENDING ME DOZENS OF ANGRY LETTERS
This has gotten more attention than expected so I figure I will put it here as well.
(via not-your-fae)
