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You're confusing sex and genotype. Those are variations within a sex. They'll still produce one of two gamete sizes

Is literally any discussion or debate on the topic inappropriate?

Gender is appropriate for sociology. Biology doesn't give a shit what you identify as. It has no place in a biology textbook. It's not moving the field forward, it's trying to push a worse and irrelevant definition.

I disagree that the only way to determine the sex of an individual is gamete size

Bully for you, but your opinion is irrelevant to the scientific consensus.

The author also wrote an article that is addressing your exact questions: https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/how-our-shoes-can-help-explain-the

The article basically consists of “I don’t like it when people do this

Again, this is not just some random opinion. This is is not equal to your opinion. This is a PhD in evolutionary biology writing about the scientific consensus. You're free to disagree with the scientific consensus, but you should admit you're no better than a creationist spouting off "god did it".

Do you agree with the basic scientific consensus, that sex is binary and immutable?

The scientific consensus is that sex is binary and immutable. If you disagree, feel free to provide any citation to the contrary.

Which by the way, does not inherently involve transgender people at all. People can feel and present however they want. They cannot however change their biological sex, regardless of how many hormones or surgeries they get. This is a fact that you cannot refute. You're free to disagree, but know that you're denying basic science. You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

Those are all variations within a sex. You're confusing sex with the phenotype and genotype.

Anyone can change their gender because it's all made up. Nobody can change the type of gametes they do or would produce.

So I would agree with that 58%, because there's no option for "Yes, and intersex is irrelevant". It's honestly a terrible poll, most likely not written by a biologist. I wouldn't be surprised if that 13% put down "Prefer not to say" as a sort of "This is a bad poll" response.

I'll let the quoted scientist in the source of the poll respond.

“Leading science journals have been adopting this relativist view, thereby opposing fundamental biological facts,” he said.

“While we fully endorse efforts to create a more inclusive environment for gender-diverse people, this does not require denying biological sex.

“On the contrary, the rejection of biological sex seems to be based on a lack of knowledge about evolution and it champions species chauvinism, inasmuch as it imposes human identity notions on millions of other species.”

Scientific consensus is transphobia?

Live a happy, fulfilling life? I'm not sure what you mean.

What sizes gametes do they produce?

Plenty of PhD’s in evolutionary biology would agree with me, even in the article

Are you misreading the article? When it says "However, as pointed out by others", that is pointing out that you're 100% incorrect. I'm not sure why you cited something that proves you wrong. Nowhere is a single PhD cited that agrees with you.

This is a matter of opinion, not an objective fact.

It is an objective fact. I'll link you to Wikipedia because it's easy, but feel free to cite anything that contradicts it: "The type of gamete an organism produces determines its sex"

Talk to an expert with a PHD about this

You literally avoided reading the article, where a PhD in evolutionary biology explains exactly why you're wrong.