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Sexual Binary
Modern science endorses a bimodal model, not a binary one, in its understanding of sex
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- 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”
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Scientific American: Montañez 17
- 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
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New York Times: Fausto-Sterling 18
- 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.