zoologicallyobsessed:

fractiousrvt:

zoologicallyobsessed:

insureyourfeelings:

If you are born with a penis, you are a male.

If you are born with a vagina, you are a female.

It is very simple biological science and has jack shit to do with how you feel about it.  In the words of the illustrious Lady Gaga, “Gad makes no mistakes”.  One might thus surmise that you aren’t just dropped into your body arbitrarily.

When cis people with no background in science or biology think they know anything about the complex concepts of gender and/or sex, within society and the scientific community. 

Cis people are getting their transphobia mixed up with what they have convinced themselves to believe is “biology”  

We have a dog at work who was born with a vulva and vagina, but also had a rudimentary penis. And while this dog did have a uterus, there were testicles instead of ovaries and one of those testes was even scrotal and had dragged the associated uterine horn through the inguinal ring.

So then which sex was this dog?

P.s. gods have nothing to do with anything so don’t try to hide your bigotry in piety.

First of all this guy doesn’t even have his cultural definition of sex right. Sex, in a social context isn’t just genitals. Rather it’s a list of narrow criteria:

• genitals / reproductive organs
• chromosomes
• secondary sex characteristics 

Genitals and reproductive organs; like stated above isn’t as simple as being one or the other. It’s common to find both reproductive organs in organisms, as well as monoecious species being a common thing.

And so is sequential hermaphroditism, in fish especially and parthenogenesis. 

Chromosomes are so complex. The simplified XY view on sex, is now thought to be wrong and much more complex then that. As most thing are found to be in science. 

Here’s a nice (simplified) diagram on all the different types of “sex” chromosomes through out animals and plants.

A good scientific article (filled with references) on how scientists view sex is changing to a more spectrum then binary system

Another article (again filled with links to scientific papers and research) on how sex doesn’t = chromosomes 

Not to mention not that rare for people to have a 

chromosomal arrangement that results in different secondary sex characteristics, or organs then society would dictate, as well as aneuploidy in humans being a thing. 

Secondary sex characteristics or

sexually dimorphic phenotypic traits

are even more complex. They are determined by hormones mostly. A good example is this lion here:

This is actually a lioness that has grown a mane, due to hormonal differences. So far scientists don’t have any definite answers as to what caused the hormonal difference or why. But instances of these maned lionesses have become more common, so it might just be that scientists have never noticed them until now. 

The short is dividing animals and plants up in dioecious classes is outdated and has been for a long time. All the new research on sex, reproduction and sexual dimorphism has shown us that our understanding of sex as binary is outdated and simplified. As usual it’s time the scientific community update our terminology to better reflect the current scientific understanding that we have.