It's because the 'actual arguments' are fucking stupid and trolling. Fuck off.
Critical Analysis
Analyze things, critically. Anything is welcome.
If you think something is wrong, say so!
Please read past the title.
It’s 2026 and we’re winning the argument and shaping public policy.
This feels true, regardless of the rest. These arguments probably need to be addressed head-on.
EDIT: I should clarify, I'm not saying that's a good thing, but it's not really in question

Not saying they've got a point but if someone is shaping public policy, no matter how dumb, you can't ignore them. Like RFK pushing the circumcision autism thing.
lol
This dudes rantings are the moral equivalent of:
zomg debate me! This is so mega important! Legitimize my book report opinion by publishing against it! Hate cites count! People like me are being oppressed! REEEEE
I mean tying sex to gametes immediately falls apart when you consider people who are born sterile; they produce neither and are thus sexless or something?
Ultimately they're not arguing what others are arguing. The "conservative" argument was always that there's only two sexes, and everything else (eg secondary characteristics, gender etc...) should comply with it. But biology is messy, so that's just not universally true. One "camp" decided to stretch the definition of sex (creating a spectrum), the other narrowed it to ever smaller definitions, to the point where perhaps it's not even that useful anymore for many purposes. Nothing necessarily wrong with being a puritan when it comes to these definitions, but it's arguing a discussion that's not being argued.
The article he's talking about has a section about DSDs that I think also covers what his response would be to sterility
However, the existence of such conditions does not undermine the binary nature of sex, because the sex binary does not entail that every individual can be unambiguously categorized as male or female. Rather, the claim is that in anisogamous organisms there are only two gamete types, sperm and ova, and thus only two sexes. Sexual ambiguity is not a third or intermediate sex because developmental variation does not correspond to producing new gamete types.
I think you're right that people are talking past each other on this. Biologists use gametes because they care about defining sex in a meaningful way when talking about both humans and crabs. We don't care about crabs using the bathroom though.

