User talk:Michiger

Welcome

Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. Your recent edits to the top of Sex probably need to be discussed at Talk:Sex. You can start a new discussion topic there to explain what you hope to accomplish. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:09, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You would probably be interested in this major discussion from last year. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:30, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits on the sex article

This revert was justified because your text was poorly written, unsourced, and off topic for the article, as had already been noted in a previous edit summary. Zefr (talk) 04:11, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In principle, there's nothing wrong with noting the existence of Intersex (biology) individual organisms, though that article should probably not dwell too much on Intersex people.

However, the overall subject of the article isn't about how to assign sex to an individual, but the far more fundamental point of sexual reproduction, that there are two sets of non-interchangeable gametes, and these gametes define which organisms are conventionally called male and which are conventionally called female. While each of the various characteristics for any given individual could fall anywhere on a spectrum from male to female, there's no functional gamete, in any species, that is an intersex gamete.

To oversimplify matters, in terms of biological sex, there are:

intersex individuals who produce functional sperm – and are therefore male in terms of sexual reproduction, no matter how closely they do or don't resemble an average male of their species;
intersex individuals who produce functional eggs – and are therefore female in terms of sexual reproduction, no matter how closely they do or don't resemble an average female of their species; and
intersex individuals who do not produce functional gametes – and are therefore not going to be reproducing sexually.

If you are interested less in the "sperm meets egg" part of reproduction and more interested in the "some humans' bodies don't line up with official expectations (though in 99% of cases you can tell that they're either male or female overall)" subject, then you probably want to look at articles like Sex assignment, Sex differences in human physiology, and related subjects. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:30, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]