(January 29, 2019 at 12:01 pm)tackattack Wrote: I guess that depends on the "we" in question. OK I agree with your statements. As to the OP though, I'm still not convinced gender is non-binary. I might start saying gender is bimodal instead though.
Gender is compound trait assembled from a number of different underlying characteristics.
Some of the typical underlying characteristics used, such as genitalia, do have a continuous but heavily bimodal distribution. Others characteristics that may be used have a shape that has not been so well and uncontestedly defined. The selection of characteristics that goes into construction of compound trait is by no means universally agreed, not their relative weights uncontested.
“Conservatives” like to conserve what they conceive to be the correct final shape of the final trait, and would then cherry pick the characteristics and their weights so as to claim the a priori determined correct shape is not without basis.
