Doesn’t sound to me like you know the difference between sex and gender. We do have a pretty solid idea of how genetics and sex are intertwined, including intersex conditions. Gender is a whole different thing.

Biological sex is a dogwhistle made digestible to appease the apathetic moderate

Edit: and this entire thread is proof of that 🍿

I totally understand what you’re saying, but if you take gender out of it and just think about humans as any other animal, you could classify animals with penises and animals with vaginas separately especially if you’re breeding them. The AI overlords won’t care when they’re breeding us.

EDIT: two types of genitalia instead of just penis and vagina. And not all but many animals.

I don’t like it by association, because most of the time I hear it used by intolerant people (like right wing assholes on the “news”). Sometimes, though, I hear it used without malice, presumably because people don’t know what else to say.

Pardon my ignorance, but what term would you suggest instead? Birth sex? Assigned sex? Something else?

I hate, with a burning passion, the term "biological sex".

For anyone else questioning topics like this, here's a fairly lengthy but great video on the topic.

https://youtu.be/nVQplt7Chos

Cis ppl showing they're not ready to hear this yet