What fallacy is this?
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Original Question
In response to me saying:
Gametes cannot be used to create a sex binary in humans, because no gametes can be present along with ambiguous or mixed gonadal tissue. When this happens, other sex markers have to be considered, none of which are binary.
He responded:
You think these cases debunk sex binary? Lol. More people are born without limbs yet we still say humans have 2 arms, 5 fingers, and are bipedal. Deformities don’t define normativity
What fallacy is this?
Answers
1I would call this poor communication rather than committing a specific fallacy. You both seem to agree on the fact of the matter, that some humans don't have the typical biological markers of a binary male or female. But your initial sentence, that a sex binary cannot be created, leaves some room for interpretation.
What it seems to me that you're trying to communicate is that there are some people who don't fall clearly into the male/female sex classifications as we understand them, so it ceases to be a true, ironclad binary. How I think this other person interpreted that, though, was as you saying that the binary sex classification system we use is completely unworkable, despite the fact that it works for the vast majority of people, and is attempting to refute that point.
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