Wanglicious posted...
or maybe, just maybe, you somehow missed clicking on sex in the gender page which brings you to here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex
I read the first couple of lines of that article, and concluded it was talking about sex as a process of reproduction. So...sure, I missed this line, my bad:
"An organism's sex is defined by the gametes it produces: males produce male gametes (spermatozoa, or sperm) while females produce female gametes (ova, or egg cells); individual organisms which produce both male and female gametes are termed hermaphroditic."
So...I suppose that would make transsexuals "none of the above"? But then, there are people born infertile or with a mix of genetalia, say, with a vagina and testes (and that particular mix tends to legally get classified as female, because it's much easier to check for a vagina than to check for unusual ovaries. Under the gametic schema it would be male). What about women who are menopausal, and thus no longer produce gametes--do they no longer have gametic sex? For that matter, if you believe the studies that claim that women are born with the total number of eggs they will ever have, since they don't produce new gametes after birth do they cease having a gender?
I certainly remember having discussions like this with Biology professors (vaguely--I haven't done a biology course in about 15 years). But...it does show that the gametic definition is pretty damn useless for social purposes.
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