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Hermaphrodites and those born with ambiguous external genitalia do exist. They're rare, but the point is, they're unfortunate "goofs" in the development of either a male or a female.

These unfortunate circumstances do not translate into there being 57 different sexes. When speaking of the human being in biological terms, there are two sexes. That's it.

Neither does it mean that the entire culture overturns itself because of those with rare, unfortunate genetic disorders or for those with 𝒑𝒔𝒚𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔.

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Forgive the digression but how are you able to get bold and italics in these substack comments?

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Of course! I use Yay Text: https://yaytext.com/bold-italic/ This will take you right to the text box for bold and/or italic, but you'll see on the far left other options for text and emojis. Enjoy!

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