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SpokenTruth said:
o_O.Q said:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07238-8

"A move to classify people on the basis of anatomy or genetics should be abandoned."

https://www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display/2018/10/30/letter-re-scientific-understanding-of-sex-and-gender/

" Moreover, models predict that variation should exist within the categories that HHS proposes as "male" and “female”, indicating that sex should be more accurately viewed as a continuum."

can you explain for me how a continuum is specific?

should I look for more sources? I gathered these in a couple minutes, fairly sure I'd have ten easily if I spent a bit more time

I don't think all scientists in these fields are onboard with this agenda, but there is clearly an agenda at work here

So you didn't read the article from Nature, did you?  What they want abandoned is a government plan to bind sex with gender. 

From your article: "The proposal — on which HHS officials have refused to comment — is a terrible idea that should be killed off. It has no foundation in science and would undo decades of progress on understanding sex — a classification based on internal and external bodily characteristics — and gender, a social construct related to biological differences but also rooted in culture, societal norms and individual behaviour. "

It's almost like I just said that a dew minutes ago too.  Remember this?

4). I'm not confusing sex with gender, you are.  Sex is a biological factor based primarily around sex chromosomes. Gender is based on behavioral and sociocultural traits.

And yes, a continuum is more specific than just blanket terms that have very little specificity. Better stated, we now address the specifics of biological sex rather than the superficial.

"What they want abandoned is a government plan to bind sex with gender. "

yes of course and their reasoning for that is not only that sex and gender are separate but primarily that biological classifications should not be made with regards to sex

"A move to classify people on the basis of anatomy or genetics should be abandoned."

can you address this?

"It's almost like I just said that a dew minutes ago too.  Remember this?"

look dude your first comment in this very thread to me shows you calling male and female genders, and you have the gall to keep posting this nonsense about me not understanding this bullshit? Me not agreeing with you does not mean I do not understand this, these ideas are ridiculously easy to understand, which is ironic since its proponents of these ideas like you who constantly trip over them when trying to convince people that they are coherent

"Sex is a biological factor based primarily around sex chromosomes. Gender is based on behavioral and sociocultural traits."

can you quote me saying otherwise at any point in this conversation? if not can we drop the strawman?

"yes, a continuum is more specific than just blanket terms that have very little specificity. Better stated, we now address the specifics of biological sex rather than the superficial."

good, the beginnings of an actual argument, so this is how a continuum is defined and keep in mind that this does not address those who argue that these classifications should just be done away with altogether

"a continuous sequence in which adjacent elements are not perceptibly different from each other, although the extremes are quite distinct."

can you explain for me what elements form this continuum?