Sex Is Binary

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🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Are sex categories—male and female—real, immutable, and binary? Or are they “social constructs”? Colin Wright, Ph.D. in evolutionary biology and fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has the answer. This video was made possible by a generous donation from Joseph U. Oswald.

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0:00.0	As to define the word woman during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2022, Judge
0:07.0	Katanji Jackson famously demurred, saying, I'm not a biologist.
0:11.0	Well, I am a biologist, and I'm here to help.
0:15.0	To that end, let me rephrase the question to Judge Jackson.
0:18.6	Our six categories in humans, male and female, real, immutable, and binary, are they merely
0:24.4	social constructs?
0:26.6	Answer?
0:27.6	Real?
0:28.6	It's just the way it is, and we all know it.
0:31.3	Immutable?
0:32.3	It can't be changed.
0:34.1	And binary.
0:35.3	There are only two sexes, not three or four, or fifty-seven.
0:40.0	This is true throughout the plant and animal kingdoms.
0:43.1	An organism sex is defined by the type of gamut, sperm or ova, it can, or would, produce.
0:50.1	Males have the function of producing sperm, or small gametes, and females, ova, are large
0:55.2	ones.
0:56.2	There is no third gamut type.
0:58.4	There are only two.
0:59.9	Therefore, sex is binary.
1:03.1	This shouldn't be controversial.
1:05.0	It's just basic biology.
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