Plus One: Commentary on Gender Ideology Culture
In this issue, I am privileged to publish an essay from a good friend, who is actually a non-binary person: one of the very few people with an intersex condition. As such, he is uniquely positioned to comment on the way that medical conditions like his are appropriated by the Woke to spread their ideology. This is his only published writing on the topic and I am honored to publish it. —HMN
One plus one equals two. Unless you are online, then one plus one might equal three. Or four. Or five. This is an interesting argument that I’ve encountered and have tried to wrap my head around. Especially since I’m an extra one.
What do I mean by this? I – and I’m assuming many who are not online or on Twitter on a regular basis – understand gender and sex to be interchangeable. When we say woman, we mean a homo sapiens with a female phenotype and XX chromosomes. When we say man, we mean a homo sapiens with a male phenotype and XY chromosomes. This is the “binary” that is somehow problematic, despite being a simple material reality. Calling it problematic is like calling out sand for being made of silicate to be problematic. Or calling out hydrogen peroxide for not liking silver problematic.
Granted, it is not a perfect binary. There are outliers. Referred to as aneuploidy, these are people whom have an extra chromosome the most common being trisomies, having one extra chromosome - such as a 47,XXX or XXY or XYY. There are also rarer monosomies (only X is viable, this is known as Turner Syndrome), tetrasomies (four chromosomes) and pentasomies (five chromosomes).
