Biological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum – a biologist explains how it’s multidimensional

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Biological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum – a biologist explains how it’s multidimensional

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Actually Intersex@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 5 days ago

Each person is a mosaic of sex-related and postpubertal biological traits that vary in their degree of femaleness and maleness.

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