To add--Emily writes: "Most have one normal ovary, and one undifferentiated ovotestis."
Applying the word "undifferentiated" to ovotestis is a bit of a trick. Ovotestes typically have portions that have undergone tissue differentiation into ovarian tissue and other portions that have undergone...
First off, any sentence you include the word "most" deserves an eyeroll.
Secondly, no. The production of gametes is the question. Round spermatids are gametes.
Fertility is yet another dimension.
With respect to the first item: gonads and their gametes...
Some hermaphrodites or intersexed persons may have a hybrid gonad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovotestis
I think the ovarian tissue areas present in an ovotestis can differentiate a progenitor germ cell into a oocyte stem cell and...
...either or both, and the phenotypes likewise result in a host of possibilities.
So, some significant part of the characteristics are indeed bimodal, making biological sex itself even more complicated than bimodal, which is exactly what I wrote.
Here is some additional reading for you from a...
...they are wrong and when people say that sex is fluid I think that is also an over-simplifcation. To me, and I could be wrong, sex has multi-dimensional characteristics, not merely one, and some of these characteristics may be fluid, binary, or bimodal, but overall, I think that sex is bimodal.
...of trans persons is invalid and try to claim that sex is binary, even though that is fallacious logic and the characteristics of sex are each bimodal spectra, not binary. These conservatives in their attempts to invalidate real people also talk about the connection between violence and...
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