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The purpose of sex organs is to nut whenever you want to with whomever will nut with you.
Or rather, nothing has a purpose. "Purpose" is a thing humans made up to explain things, especially given that humanity has a tendency toward teleology that isn't empirically supported. https://twitter.com/zaelefty/status/1283767352690200576
Or rather, nothing has a purpose. "Purpose" is a thing humans made up to explain things, especially given that humanity has a tendency toward teleology that isn't empirically supported. https://twitter.com/zaelefty/status/1283767352690200576
Life just happened as a series of chemical reactions over nearly three billion years just to reach the point of multicellular organisms, and from there to spread and diversify. Life's ability to replicate and reproduce is not an inherent purpose, and there is no true moral
underpinning to what kind of genitals or gametes your body has. Over time, humanity has - through fits, starts, and pointless opposition - come to learn that humans have self determination. We can modify our bodies through chemicals, tattoos, piercings, and more. And of course
because the human genome is *generalist* and not *specialist* that means most human bodies carry all the genes for all things labeled male and female, never mind leftover DNA for stuff like "being able to smell scents underwater." None of this exists because it has a purpose.
It exists because at some point, through the process we call evolution, those abilities were more successful than not having those abilities. Reproduction being a fairly primal ability that life required to spread and adapt. But the thing is, so what? It's not stone tablets
handed down from on high, it's not anything that was in any way given to us as a mandate. It's a thing living things can but do not have to do. There is no higher power whether one calls it God or evolution or the Celestials telling us that our bodies must be used in one way.
We have the ability to make choices for ourselves. We can decide what to do with our own bodies. We can say "This is what I need my body to be" and it's okay. It's not science denial, it's not biology denial. We're not ignoring a nonexistent purpose, and is life really only
meaningful if you invent meanings for your body parts? Meaning is something humans invented. Without humans, there's not really any meaning. Or rather, culture. Humanity's existence is tens of thousands of years of struggle - to survive, to work together, to form communities,
to strive for things we could not do from within the limitations of our own physical bodies. To build vehicles, to build roads, to build cities, and ports. To trade, to treat illness, to accommodate disabilities, to meet people's needs whatever they may be. There is no inherent
"maleness" or "femaleness" to human or really any organisms' bodies. There's just how life reproduces. Humans named that ability to reproduce "sex," at least for some organisms. But again, that's a name we gave it, just like male or female. And just like that we can say that male
and female refer to multiple features of human bodies and do not always align with each other in every human body. We can acknowledge chromosomes (immutable right now), phenotypal (easily modifiable), and gender. Chromosomes are largely irrelevant to our
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everyday lives. Phenotype can be extremely critical, especially to intersex and trans people, but not exclusively. Sex is not a set of immutable categories that exist outside of human society. They're descriptions of what bodies are like, and when we have new information, we
update the descriptions. That is how we've conceived of science to work, at least in an ideal sense. When you encounter the unexpected and it is verifiably real (the existence of trans people), you don't immediately say "this isn't real." That's religion, or scientism.
You try to figure out what's going on, or at least someone does. Usually a lot of someones, which is why we have over a century of scientific research examining, discussing, and trying to explain the existence of trans people. These have evolved over time as some researchers have
learned to be respectful of trans people and our identities. And respectful of the fact that is up to each individual human to decide our own purpose, meaning, and goals in life. Gonads and genitals are a part of our bodies, like hands and feet, that help us do something. They're
not a mandate, or a law, or anything we need to obey, nor should we be required to. That leads to reproductive injustice, deprivation of bodily autonomy from entire swaths of people because of gender, sex, ethnicity, race, disability, and even income. The same people who insist
that it's vitally important to divide all humans up in terms of which kinds of gametes their bodies produce are coming from exactly the same kinds of people who insist that gay marriage is wrong because marriage is for reproduction (it's not), or deny people with wombs access to
birth control or fertility aids. The same kind of people who set out to coercively and involuntarily sterilize disabled people and women of color to "protect the gene pool" or whatever. You know, eugenics. It's not even a tiny step from "Your gonads define to" to "you have no
right to choose the course of your own life." It is in fact exactly the same thing. Whatever the people spreading this nonsense about asparagus or gametes or chromosomes think they're doing, they're holding the door open to shackle us all to whoever can seize the authority to
control our bodies. People with wombs who want tubal ligation or other procedures for permanent infertility, or who want to access reproductive technology like artificial insemination, access to technology like uterine transplants or surrogate pregnancies, birth control access,
trans people who seek social and/or medical transition, the right of intersex people to not be surgically mutilated before they're old enough to choose for themselves, trans children who need social transition and trans teens who need medical intervention, disabled people who
want children, these people's needs and more because I cannot possibly list everything all face exactly the same issue: Whether or not those in power are willing to let them access what they need to live the lives they want. That guy in the first tweet? He wants to deny trans
people our right to self-determination and self definition. The tools he's using are as old as the hills and have been used over and over again to coerce people into lives that they shouldn't have to live. Deal with that reality or get out of the way.
Addendum: No one should have to painstakingly explain how social constructs work and the difference between something existing and something existing with a label given and defined by humans. Or that biology is messy and not a series of impermeable boxes, but here we are.
Anyone who insists you need peer reviewed studies to prove you're real and deserve respect is a rancid grease stain not worthy of respect in a Democratic society.
Also, is Pluto a planet now? Was Pluto a planet in 1979? The real answers are no and yes. Pluto didn't change, but how we define and analyze celestial objects changed over time. My body was labeled male when I was born. It's labeled female now. How we define and analyze human
bodies changed over time. That's science.
Okay, one more thing. Watch this video and think about: What kind of person is the large triangle? What kind of person is the small triangle?
I have my own answer, but understanding why one might answer this question in a particular way is a fairly good starting point as to why people insist on assigning purposes and missions to processes that just exist because that's how the universe works. It's a cognitive bias.
