"Trying to learn more about the issue I discovered (I didn't know this) that there are more than two biological sexes with implications not fully understood."
No, this isn't quite true. Karyotypic variations aren't new sexes, though they're often incorrectly framed that way, they're just chromosomal differences, like Down's syndrome for e…
"Trying to learn more about the issue I discovered (I didn't know this) that there are more than two biological sexes with implications not fully understood."
No, this isn't quite true. Karyotypic variations aren't new sexes, though they're often incorrectly framed that way, they're just chromosomal differences, like Down's syndrome for example. A new biological sex would be a human who produced a new type of gamete or had a role in sexual reproduction other than providing the sperm or the egg. No such human exists.
A single X chromosome produces females (with Turner syndrome as you say). XXY, XYY and XXXY chromosomes all produce males with various symptoms or sometimes no symptoms at all. These people are infertile in many cases, but again, that doesn't make then a new sex.
But beyond that, the key point to bear in mind is that intersex conditions have nothing to do with trans identities.
As far as I know, there's only one person on Medium who is both intersex and identifies as trans. And, ironically enough, he's the first person to criticise trans people who conflate being trans with intersex conditions. Even if there were multiple sexes, it still wouldn't mean that a male becomes a female by "feeling" like one.
The overwhelming majority of trans people are just garden-variety males and females, which is obvious just from the incredible rarity of intersex conditions. Extreeeemly occasionally, the external genitalia of males and females is ambiguous enough that it's not immediately obvious which they are just by looking (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/). But my fun fact of the day is that this happens almost exactly as rarely as flipping a coin and having it land in its edge (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993PhRvE..48.2547M/abstract).
"Trying to learn more about the issue I discovered (I didn't know this) that there are more than two biological sexes with implications not fully understood."
No, this isn't quite true. Karyotypic variations aren't new sexes, though they're often incorrectly framed that way, they're just chromosomal differences, like Down's syndrome for example. A new biological sex would be a human who produced a new type of gamete or had a role in sexual reproduction other than providing the sperm or the egg. No such human exists.
A single X chromosome produces females (with Turner syndrome as you say). XXY, XYY and XXXY chromosomes all produce males with various symptoms or sometimes no symptoms at all. These people are infertile in many cases, but again, that doesn't make then a new sex.
But beyond that, the key point to bear in mind is that intersex conditions have nothing to do with trans identities.
As far as I know, there's only one person on Medium who is both intersex and identifies as trans. And, ironically enough, he's the first person to criticise trans people who conflate being trans with intersex conditions. Even if there were multiple sexes, it still wouldn't mean that a male becomes a female by "feeling" like one.
The overwhelming majority of trans people are just garden-variety males and females, which is obvious just from the incredible rarity of intersex conditions. Extreeeemly occasionally, the external genitalia of males and females is ambiguous enough that it's not immediately obvious which they are just by looking (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/). But my fun fact of the day is that this happens almost exactly as rarely as flipping a coin and having it land in its edge (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993PhRvE..48.2547M/abstract).
Thanks for the clarification.