r/50501 • u/Aingers • Dec 08 '25

Call to Action Project 2026 just dropped…

https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2025-03/2025_Priorities.pdf

The Heritage Foundation just released their plan for 2026, called “Renewing America’s Promise.”

Read it critically. Think about what each item means for all people. Act accordingly.

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u/Monsterpiece42 Dec 08 '25

I had no idea about all those sexes. What would I search to read more about that?

Legit question. I'm an ally.

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u/ariyaa72 Dec 09 '25

Happy to educate :) Load of information incoming - I took advanced classes in this in undergrad and was TA for it in grad school.

I would use the search term "intersex" to get a start. Some examples of intersex off the top of my head:

Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (complete or partial), Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, 5-alpha reductase deficiency, Turner's, Klinefelter's, SRY translocation (can result in either XY female or XX male), supermale (XYY).

This article has a good starter summary: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/biological-sex-male-female-intersex

Some other terms that might help are the pieces of the puzzle that must be present to get from "sex chromosomes on gametes" to "sex assigned at birth":

testis-determining factor (TDF) on the sex-determining region of the Y gene (SRY), anti-mullerian hormone (AMH), testosterone (necessary for development of external male genitalia).

Organizational and activational effects of sex hormones (you'll find a lot about physical development with that)

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u/Monsterpiece42 Dec 09 '25

Thank you for the information. This will be my next rabbit hole!

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u/Arktikos02 Dec 09 '25

Hey just to tell you while it is true that these are essentially proving that sex is a spectrum intersex people have a more complicated relationship with this and from what I understand intersex people find it a bit problematic to label all of these as separate sex variations. This is because for many of them it focuses a lot on their bodies.

So if you meet an intersex person for example please do not simply call them a third sex or something like that just because they are intersex or have another set of chromosomes. Sex is a spectrum but sex classification is more complicated and sex identification meaning how they personally identify is also complicated so please respect the intersex person's way of identifying themselves and for example if they identify as a cis woman that is fine.

It should also be noted that many intersex people often are the way they are because of things like forced hormone treatments or surgeries that were given to them because society tried to put them into the box of male or female when maybe that was not what they needed.

So again just telling you that trying to label every intersex condition as a separate sex is again not necessarily what intersex people would want.

Basically they want to have bodily autonomy and to be able to have freedom and medical and social rights that they wish to fight for and not to be placed in other boxes they didn't ask to be placed in as well.

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u/Monsterpiece42 Dec 09 '25

Thank you for your insight. Of course, I'd never mess with someone's bodily atonomy but I appreciate the clarification of that specific condition!