christoverall.com
2025-09-26
Every newborn child is either a boy or a girl, just as every human adult is either a man or a woman. This is a biological reality. Boy and girl, man and woman, are just the age-specific terms for human males and females. Sex for human beings, like all other mammalian species, is binary. And stable. Sex does not exist along a spectrum, nor is it fluid. That's why activists use different words--gender, and gender identity--to make those claims.
But stick with sex for a moment. The reason we can confidently say that sex in humans (like other mammals) is binary and stable is because there are two ways of being organized for sexual reproduction. What do I mean by that? Organisms are organized. Human beings, like other organisms, are composed of parts--organs--that work together as an integrated unit (a whole or complete entity). The various organs perform various functions, but not in a haphazard or disorganized way. They are, rather, organized. All of us humans--male and female alike--are organized the same way when it comes to our respiratory system and the function of breathing, and our circulatory system and the function of pumping blood. But we are organized differently in one key respect--sexual reproduction. So when we say there are male and female human organisms--people--we are talking about two ways of being organized sexually--that is, in respect of sexual reproduction and the reproductive system.
Sex is not "assigned at birth," nor at a twenty-week ultrasound. It is identified, that is, recognized, based on the organization of the organism. Sex--in terms of male and female--is determined by the organization of the organism for sexually reproductive functioning. So sex as a status--male and female--is a recognition of the organization of a body to reproduce in a certain way. More than simply being identified on the basis of such organization, sex is a coherent concept based--and based only--on that organization. The fundamental conceptual distinction between a male and a female is the organism's organization for sexual reproduction.