[Serious] Please convince me gender is binary

[Brian37]

Gender, like many other things, is a spectrum. For example, gender is often claimed to be determined by genitalia, however hermaphrodites can have both male and female genitalia to varying extents. So even when it gets to basic physical characteristics, it obviously is not binary.

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Snowflakes as individual snowflakes follow a pattern yes, but each individual snowflake is unique like a fingerprint

That's technically not quite accurate.

Not in the fingerprint concept no. But just like hurricanes we cant predict how many per year, or even the size from start to finish of each hurricane, but only from a cone, day to day basis, but we can predict the conditions that lead to hurricanes. Snowflakes are predictable not on an individual pattern scale, but on conditions that lead to average patterns. Just like we know hurricanes are always unique but range from category 1 to category 5.

Snowflakes are predictable, because of conditions, not because each snowflake has the same finger print. Humans are predictable too, because of conditions, not in that every human ends up with the same DNA sequence.