Beyond the Genderbread Person

The Failures of Biological Sex

https://www.itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/2018/10/the-genderbread-person-v4/

Part 1: What is Biological Sex?

A stylized render of several X chromosome pairs floating in a blue liquid
https://humanoriginproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/human-chromosome-function.jpg

Part 2: The Entire Biological State of the Human Body Can’t Reasonably Be Reduced Down to a Single Bimodal Variable

A vague collection of reddish lines and swirls, presumably as part of a cell
Photo by Adrien Converse on Unsplash
Pictured: Me, a Biological Male whose internal biology is identical to when I was born
A chart detailing current medical standards for assigning sex at birth, provided by ISNA.
https://www.ambitgenderdiversity.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Webp.net-resizeimage-4-500x298.jpg

Part 3: How Biological Sex Obscures Biology

A translucent person sitting on a bench
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/invisible-women-book-dangerous-gender-data-gap-health-safety
Two people walking in the woods
Photo by Boxed Water Is Better on Unsplash
A clean medical office
Photo by Arseny Togulev on Unsplash
some undefined statistics on a screen
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Part 4: The Point of Biological Sex

An image of two people kissing
Photo by Pablo Heimplatz on Unsplash
The original Genderbread Person, featuring 4 spectrums from male to female in Attraction, Identity, Expression, and Sex
Two people presumably celebrating a gender reveal party
Photo by Josh Kahen on Unsplash
A roughly painted set of LGBT pride flag colors
Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash
The biological sex spectrums from GPv2, featuring presets for male, female, intersex, “female self-ID” and “male self-ID”

Part 5: Objections

Two people talking to each other on a bench in front of a window with a view of a beach
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Part 6: The End of Biological Sex

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Photo by Matt Popovich on Unsplash

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Trans Internet Creator with an engineering degree. She/they.