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I know, I know. When you hear me say that biological sex isn’t real, you hear that I’m saying that the sexed attributes of a body aren’t real, that having sex isn’t real, and that reproduction isn’t real. But here’s the problem: you’ve conflated a map for the terrain.To be clear: bodies and reproduction are material realities; your thoughts about that material reality are just that: thoughts. The pop media term, “biological sex” can mean one of only two things: the study of living organisms or the life process of a living organism. To say, “biological sex” is to reference the process category of an organism, which is to say, it’s ontology. Ontology is a branch of science that concerns…
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