To be honest, I don't know if it was that comment in particular the reason for the ban, because I got banned automatically after posting it. I've been expressing anti porn, anti violent kinks and anti sex work views in Reddit before. I've also defended JK Rowling, and commented in GenderDifficult. I don't even agree with Gender Critical in several things, but I guess that anything that goes against the narrative in these topics is "terfy". In Reddit, I've said before that is extremely offensive to say that if we consider black woman women, we have to consider trans women women as well, because both are "types of women". I said that a black woman is genetically closer to a white woman than to a black trans woman, because race, unlike sex, is truly a social construct.

I do agree with many of the things that used to be discused in r/GenderCritical: the criticism of porn, sex work and kink, the idea of gender as an identity, the negation of biological sex, the whole "genital preference" nosense, children transitioning, the origin of women opression as sex based and callling out misogyny in the LGTB community. I don't think that "a woman is anyone who identifies as woman". I think that being a man or a woman is a material reality, not a feeling. There is one important aspect in which I disagree: I do consider trans women as social women and trans men as social men. I do consider that men and women should be biological terms, and not social, but I understand that there are social connotations deeply tied to "being a woman" or "being a man" that can be changed in a generation, and why just being an effeminate man is not enough for a trans woman. We are social animals after all, and identity is very important. What I mean by social woman is that for example someone like NikkieTutorials has never lived as "a man", people didn't know that she was trans until she said it, and in her daily life, she's considered as woman by society, so even is she is male, I do consider her a woman. Anyway, this is not what this post is about.

Like I said, I'm a biologist, and I'm getting pissed as I incresealy see more and more "sex is a spectrum" things, even from scientists who want to be woke. This is what I commented in Reddit and presumably what got me banned. In this post I defend a guy who has maked several YouTube videos explaining why sex is a binary. The title of the post in r/feminism is "intersex women are women". This guy has never claimed otherwise. The post was a screenshot of a Twitter reply were a XY woman with vagina and no uterus (probably Swyer syndrome) was calling him out because he said that there are only two sexes and that secondary sex traits don't define sex, primary ones do (what is absolutely correct).

< This post is misleading. He has talked about this in his videos. He doesn't say that chromosomes alone determine sex, what he says is that intersex people are not a third sex or something between male and female, but variations inside male or female. The woman in the post has probably Swyer syndrome: these women are XY but developed as females due to a mutation in the SRY gene, the gene that leads to the development of male characteristics, located in the Y chromosome. This guy has talked about Swyer syndrome before, he said that despite them being XY, they are female because they develop female primary sex traits. He never said that women with Swyer syndrome aren't women. He is right when he says that secondary sex traits don't determine sex: a vagina, uterus and ovaries aren't secondary sex traits, but primary. Secondary sex traits are breasts, facial hair, hormone levels... A woman with a high testosterone level is still female, a man with gynecomasty is still male.

In humans, sex is a binary. There aren't any human hermaphrodites, a third gamete or a third reproductive system. It's true that is not always as simple as XY and XX, he adresses this in his videos. But the exception doesn't make the rule. Intersex conditions are anomalies in embrionary development. Of course, intersex people deserve the same respect and rights as everyone else. He is not saying otherwise.

Saying that sex is a spectrum because 1% of the population has a variation on sex development also implies that men who are muscular and have a beard are "more male" than skinny men with no facial hair, or that women with higher testosterone levels are "less female". This is obviously not true.

I know that there are scientists who are claiming that sex is not a binary, but everyone has their own biases. They show intersex conditions to prove it, and I understand that they say that sex is not a binary to show that things are more complicated than XX= female, XY=male, but again, the exception doesn't make the rule.

Before anyone sends me to "read a book" or to "study biology" because I clearly don't have idea, I'm a biologist. >