lacigreen:

metapianycist:

[A complicated Venn diagram depicting multiple overlapping categories of features regarded as constituting “biological sex,” meant to illustrate that sex is not nearly as binary as many people like to think.]

We typically think of biological sex in terms of penis and vagina, but it’s actually much more than that!  The variation in primary sex characteristics (penis/vagina), secondary sex characteristics (body hair, breasts, etc), and hormones (testosterone/estrogen) produces a gradient with far more than 2 possibilities.  

I actually find this chart kind of confusing…but it communicates an important point: the sex and gender spectrum are a broad, diversely populated, and beautiful aspect of human life.