Is Sex Even Real?

1. This is a video. The content of the video is about Sex (Biological), and why it actually is Sex (Social).
2. Recommendations for reading / watching / looking at:
Gender and the returns to attractiveness - Jaclyn S. Wong, Andrew M. Penner
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Gender Identity - Minghao Liu, Swetha Murthi, Leonid Poretsky
How PCOS can create gender euphoria for trans and nonbinary people - Sherronda J. Brown
Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach - Suzanne J. Kessler, Wendy McKenna
If there's a penis, it's most likely a man: Investigating the social construction of gender using eye tracking - Frederike Wenzlaff, Peer Briken, Arne Dekker
How Sexually Dimorphic Are We? Review and Synthesis - Melanie Blackless, Anthony Charuvastra, Amanda Derryck, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Karl Lauzanne, Ellen Lee
Androgenresistenz - Funktion und Phänotyp In-vitro Charakterisierung definierter Mutationen des Androgenrezeptors - Julia Katharina Gesing
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome: An Update on the Management of Adolescents and Young People - Nicolas Mendoza, Cristina Rodriguez-Alcalá, Miguel Angel Motos, Alberto Salamanca
Was halten Sie von der Einführung eines dritten, gesetzlich anerkannten Geschlechts? - EARSandEYES Statista 2023
Sex and Sensibility - Forrest Valkai
“They’re Chasing Us Away from Sport” - Human Rights Watch
Ovarian Cancer in a Man? - Ashley Sumrall, Louis Puneky, Alexandra Brown, Tate Thigpen
Woman born with testicles in her stomach wants to change views of intersex people - Ellen Scott
Butch lesbian confronted ‘tens of times’ in public toilets as anti-trans hostility spills over - Jasmine Anderson
Florida Lawmakers Pass Bill That Legalizes Teen Genital Inspections - Donald Padgett
Female Athletes With ‘Too Much’ Testosterone Forced to Undergo Genital Surgery and Hormone Therapy - takepart.com
Olympic Runner Caster Semenya Wants To Compete, Not Defend Her Womanhood - Melissa Block
The world’s top chess federation won’t let transgender women compete until ‘relevant proof’ is accepted by officials - Jamey Keaton and the associated Press
World chess just placed restrictions on both trans women and trans men - Juliana Kim
Trans women playing billiards are now under attack, showing the absurdity of trans opponents - Karleigh Webb
3. Sources in order of appearance:
Personal Account A woman tried and tested in Lancet 2005 - María Jo sé Martínez-Patiño
Born Free and Equal - Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Sex Characteristics in International Human Rights Law Second Edition. - United Nations Human Rights
Who gets to play in women's leagues? - S.C. Cornell
The five sexes revisited - Anne Fausto Sterling
A rare case report - Ovary attached to testicle inside hernia sac Halit Maloku, Raqip Shabani, Naim Haliti, Nora Shabani, Qenan Maxhuni, Rrahman Ferizi
What is gender? What is sex? - Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Do Gametes create a sex binary? - Cade Hildreth
Sexing the Body - Anne Fausto Sterling
Two more cis Black women banned from Olympics for their natural testosterone levels - Daniel Villarreal
Woman discovered she is intersex aged in her 40s - BBC
Das Parlament: Männlich, weiblich, divers - Ein neuer Eintrag im Geburtenregister
Sehr wenige Menschen definieren sich als "divers" - Die Zeit
Understanding the health and well being of LGBT populations - Jordyn White, Martín-José Sepúlveda, Charlotte J. Patterson
Human Rights Violations Against Intersex People A Background Note - United Nations Human Rights
4. Chapters
00:00-01:12: Intro & Maria José Martínez-Patiño
01:13-04:18: Intersex Definition
04:19-05:54: Sex as a social construct
05:55-07:58: The Gamete Binary
07:59-08:48: Estrogen & Testosterone
08:49-11:24: Sex as a Norm
11:25-17:56: Sex as material reality
17:57-19:15: The system is constructed, it can be destroyed

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Every baby was conceived by the combination of the gametes of the two sexes. What baby has been born from a third sex?

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Gender binary? No thank you 🫶

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Sex binary? Hell na

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But Banana Bread? At work? HELL YEAH! ​@@gajanech9437

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Bread is strictly without bananas or worse: raisins. NEVER

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This video is about sex, not gender.