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## Sexual Binary
#### Modern science endorses a bimodal model, not a binary one, in its understanding of sex
* [Legato 18](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2470289718803639)
* Description of **modern scientific attitudes** towards **human sex**.
* “_The view that the world’s population can be separated into a clearly defined dyadic unit of male and female is **defunct**; not only **clinical observations, but molecular biology** has established that **sexual identity is on a continuum**, with an **enormous potential for variance**_”
* [Scientific American: Montañez 17](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyond-xx-and-xy-the-extraordinary-complexity-of-sex-determination/)
* Graphic describing the many characteristics which factor into one's **sexual identity**.
* Helpful in indicating the **ambiguous and bimodal **nature of sex/responding to people who believe it’s as simple as **XX/XY**
![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NB419/source-library/master/images/sexual_binary.jpg)
* [New York Times: Fausto-Sterling 18](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/opinion/sex-biology-binary.html?ref=oembed)
* NY Times Op-Ed from a professor of biology & gender studies
* Explains the **biological complexity of sex** and the ways in which the **Trump Administration’s** attempts to legislate that complexity of existence is both **immoral and unscientific.**