This chart is very pretty.

This chart *does not* demonstrate that sex is a spectrum.

The sheer number of overlapping arrows negates the premise that sex can be plotted as a spectrum.
The chart attempts to map DSDs in some kind of order between female and male.

I repeat: The sheer number of arrows demonstrates that this ordering is impossible.
DSDs are discrete, qualitatively different conditions that cannot be ordered in a continuous, stepwise, logical order ‘between female and male’.
This chart maps XX males (testicles, penis) closer to the ‘female’ end than XX CAH females (ovaries, uterus etc, [sometimes virilised] clitoris).

Does that make sense to you?
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