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The Gender Spectrum: A Scientist Explains Why Gender Isn’t Binary

The Gender Spectrum: A Scientist Explains Why Gender Isn’t Binary

January 1, 2021 By Cade Hildreth 10 Comments

The gender spectrum is an understanding that gender is not binary (female/male), but rather a spectrum of biological, mental and emotional traits that exist along a continuum.

In contrast, the gender binary—also called gender binarism or genderism—is a belief that gender is composed of two distinct and opposite genders (female and male) in which there is not overlap.

Unfortunately for those who believe in a gender binary, it is not scientifically or medically correct. Gender can’t be binary, because it is a personal identity and is socially constructed.

Sex—which refers to one’s biological characteristics—also exists as a spectrum, because intersex people exist.

Today, numerous scientific fields, including biology, endocrinology, physiology, genetics, neuroscience, and reproductive science, have confirmed that both sex and gender exist as a spectrum.

This is true for humans and across the animal kingdom.

Sex (and Gender) are Bimodal, Not Binary

When using the terms sex and gender, it’s important to note that “sex” (female/male/intersex) describes biological traits. In contrast, “gender” is a broader term that reflects how a person lives within society. One’s gender identity could be woman, man, transgender, nonbinary, or an infinite number of other possibilities.

For all too long, the government, the medical system, and even our parents have assumed that sex is binary. Based on science, this is not biologically or medically accurate.

What is true is that sex characteristics tend to be bimodal, meaning there are clusters of characteristics that tend to be associated with people that we call “female” or “male.”

On average, males do have penises, and on average, females do have vaginas. This is what allows for reproduction. However, there are many examples where this is not the case, such as intersex people. External genitals (a biological marker of sex) present across a spectrum from full-size penis to small penis to micro-penis to clitoromegaly to enlarged clitoris to standard-sized clitoris.

On average, males tend to have XY chromosomes and females tend to have XX chromosomes. However, sex chromosomes come in a wide variety as well, with at least 16 different naturally occurring variations (see details below). This means that chromosomal presentation is not binary either.

On average, males tend to have more facial and body hair than females (a secondary sex characteristic), but there are also females with coarse and dense body hair and males who can’t grow a full beard.

On average, males tend to be taller than females, but there are most certainly females that are taller than some males. If skeletal structure (a biological marker of sex) was binary, then all males would have to be taller than all females, which of course, they are not.

As explained by these examples, sex is not binary, because people cannot be grouped into two separate, non-overlapping groups.

However, bimodal sex characteristics are not uncommon.

Bimodel means the presence of two (“bi”) statistical modes, which can be seen as peaks in a graph. The two modes represent probability clusters.

Binary versus Bimodal Gender - Graph

With regard to human sex, this means that for some sex characteristics, there may be common norms among people whom we tend to assign as “male” and “female.” However, there are also clearly overlaps present between the peaks. This is what makes sex bimodal, and not binary.

Finally, at risk of getting too mathematical, a bimodal distribution is by definition, a continuous probability distribution with two different modes.

In other words, it is a spectrum that has clusters. 

Why Genitals Do Not Determine Sex

With regard to assigning sex to people by their external genitalia, it is an inaccurate system at best. There are several reasons for this, as described below.

1) External Genitalia Are Diverse

In newborn humans, genitals are extremely diverse in size and shape. Until about week 7 to week 8 of pregnancy, all fetuses have what’s known as a “genital ridge.”

This genital ridge is the tissue that eventually becomes the sex organs.

At the time of birth, a newborn’s genitals are usually labeled by a physician as male or female, even if the newborn presents with sex organs or characteristics that are intersex, ambiguous, or undefined. In a few places, such as Ontario (Canada), 19 U.S. states, and Washington, DC, “nonbinary” or “gender unspecified” options now exist, but this is not yet the norm.

All sex organs come from the same genital ridge, with the testes in men being equivalent to labia and ovaries in women and the penis being equivalent to the clitoris.

This is why the penis and vagina do not exist as a binary, but rather, as a spectrum that includes the following:

  • Full-size penis
  • Small penis
  • Micro-penis
  • Clitoromegaly, also called a “Pseudopenis”
  • Enlarged clitoris
  • Standard-sized clitoris

2) Intersex People Exist

Intersex means that a person was born with variations in their sex characteristics, such as the biological markers described above. These can include: internal genitals, external genitals, gonads, chromosomes, gene expression, hormone levels, and brain structure.

Current research estimates that intersex people compose 1.7% of the population, which makes being intersex about as common as having red hair.

However, this metric is understated for the following reasons:

  1. Most doctors, parents, or individuals don’t release this confidential medical information.
  2. There are subtle forms of sex variations that do not show up until later in life which go undocumented.
  3. Definitions of what intersex is have not reached consensus.

The following examples explain this lack of consensus:

    • How small does a penis have to be before it counts as intersex?
    • Do you count sex chromosome variations if there’s no external sexual ambiguity?
    • Do unusually high or low sex hormone levels (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone) make someone intersex?
    • If so, how high or low must these hormones levels be and where is the “cut-off?” (The Olympic Committee has struggled mightily with this question.) 
    • How do you classify someone whose secondary sex characteristics (body hair, facial hair, or muscle mass, for example) don’t match their genitals?

As these questions illuminate, sex may be a spectrum for people who have not been classified as intersex as well.

What about Chromosomes?

While chromosomes are another biological trait that some people try to use to explain the sex binary (male/female), chromosomes are also varied and diverse across the human species. On average, most people assigned male at birth have XY chromosomes, while most people assigned female at birth have XX chromosomes.

However, other sex chromosomal variations frequently exist as a result of the loss, damage, or addition of one or both of the sex chromosomes.

Chromosomes and Gender

In humans, the following sex chromosome variations are naturally occurring:

  • 45, X, also called Turner syndrome
  • 45,X/46, also called XY mosaicism
  • 46, XX/XY
  • 47, XXX, also called  Trisomy X
  • 47, XXY, also called Klinefelter syndrome
  • 47, XYY with normal phenotype
  • 48, XXXX
  • 48, XXXY
  • 48, XXYY
  • 49, XXXXY
  • 49, XXXXX
  • XX Male Syndrome
  • XX Gonadal Dysgenesis
  • XY Gonadal Dysgenesis

Where Gonadal Dysgenesis is listed above, it refers to reproductive tissue (gonads) being replaced by non-reproductive fibrous tissue during prenatal development.

Furthermore, even a newborn born with “binary” sex chromosomes (XY or XX) can present with intersex characteristics.

For example, either the fetus or the mother’s adrenal glands can produce elevated levels of androgens. When this happens, an XX (“female”) child can be born with a phallus (small penis). In some cases, these newborns may will appear to have a scrotum, due to the labia fusing together.

Similarly, an XY (“male”) child can be born with an enzyme deficiency, such as 5-alpha deficiency and 17-beta dehydrogenase deficiency. When this happens, that “male” infant can be born without a penis and labelled “female” at birth.

Other biological conditions can create similar incongruities between chromosomes and genitals. This is why it’s unfortunate that federal and state-issued documents use external genitalia to make a sex assignments.

Sex versus Gender

Of course, sex and gender are not fully separate from each other. Across many cultures, they are intertwined.

Examples of this include:

  • Two-Spirited People for Native American/First Nations people
  • Hijra for South Asian people (also known as Kinnar or Kinner)
  • Māhū for Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) and Maohi (Tahitian) cultures
  • Fakaleiti for Tongans
  • Ffa’afafine for Samoans
  • And many others

One of the people who has done a phenomenal job of deconstructing the concept that sex and gender are separate is Alok Vaid-Menon.

Alok describes the prevailing idea that gender is “cultural” and exterior and sex is “biological” as neglectful of the fact that biological sex is also cultural. Alok explains that in contrast to Western beliefs, many other cultures do not perceive clothing or adornment as a supplement to the body, but as foundational to its constitution.

Why a Gender Spectrum?

Now that we’ve confirmed the existence of a sex spectrum, what about a gender spectrum?

As a nonbinary person, I have heard people say things like, “Gender is determined by what is in your pants. If you have a penis you are a man. If you have a vagina, you are a woman.”

However, as a scientist, I can tell you that gender is also complex, and across all species, exists as a spectrum.

Currently, gender gets assigned at birth based on external genitalia, but there are at least ten medically accurate markers of gender (and likely more).

Biological markers of gender include:

  1. Chromosomes – Types of chromosomal expression.
  2. Gonads – Organs that produce gametes (testis or ovaries).
  3. Hormones –Types and level of hormone secretion, which vary within and across the sexes.
  4. Secondary Sex Characteristics – Features that appear during puberty, but are not involved with reproduction.
  5. External Genitalia – Genitals visible outside the body.
  6. Internal Genitalia – Genitals present within the body.
  7. Skeletal Structure – Sex differences may be seen in the pelvis, jaw bone, brow, and limb length and thickness.
  8. Gene Expression –Levels and types of gene expression. Genes dictate the proteins made by the body. Known genes that impact sex include DMRT1, SRY (produces Testis-Determining Factor), and Foxl 2.
  9. Brain Structure – Both brain structure characteristics (including the ratio of white matter to grey matter) and brain activation patterns vary by sex.
  10. Personal Identity – How a person self-identifies. It is often a result of the other factors interacting, making it a valuable marker.

Gender and the Brain

The brain is another biological marker of gender that presents with great diversity, further supporting the concept of a gender spectrum.

In a fascinating study published May 2018 by the European Society of Endocrinology researchers discovered, “Brain activity and structure in transgender adolescents more closely resembles the typical activation patterns of their desired gender.”

When MRI scans of 160 transgender youths were analyzed using a technique called diffusion tensor imaging, the brains of transgender boys’ resembled that of cisgender boys’, while the brains of transgender girls’ brains resembled the brains of cisgender girls’.

Put simply, transgender kids’ brains resemble their gender identity and not their biological sex.

Cisgender means that a person’s gender identity aligns with the sex assigned to them at birth, while transgender means a person’s gender identity does not align with the sex assigned to them at birth.

Gender and the brain

As stated by Julie Bakker, lead researcher from the University of Liege, “We now have evidence that sexual differentiation of the brain differs in young people with [gender dysphoria], as they show functional brain characteristics that are typical of their desired gender.”

This study explored the brains of cis girls, cis boys, trans girls and trans boys. The next step is for more sexes and genders to become integrated within this neuroscience research.

The Role of the Mind versus the Brain

Of course, the brain and the mind are also two different things.

The brain is the physical structure in your head that is composed of grey and white matter. It has neurons firing within it and uses neurotransmitters as chemicals messengers.

The brain can be thought of as your central processor, because it integrates and facilitates all of the functions within your body.

As noted by Julie Bakker (lead researcher in the MRI study above) and others, brain structure and activation patterns present along a spectrum.

The mind, on the other hand, is the conscious product of that biological activity that creates emotions, ideas, memories, interpretations, and creative thought.

It determines your personality, plays a role in how you prefer to present, and impacts how you interact with the world. The mind plays a central role in your gender identity.

Sex and Gender Identification at Birth

As described above, external genitals are not an accurate marker of gender to use at birth, because they are one of at least 10 biologically relevant markers of gender.

External genitals are also highly variable across our species, may be ambiguous, and potentially can have both male and female sex organs present.

Furthermore, performing this gender assignment at birth based on external genitals does allow a physician to integrate information about the child’s internal genitals, gonads, chromosomes, gene expression, skeletal structure, brain structure, and most importantly, how the child will grow up and express themselves within society.

While I am not opposed to the option to note sex on a child’s birth certificate, I am opposed to:

  1. The requirement that parents select a sex for their child. Parents should be allowed not to indicate a sex for their child if this is their preference.
  2. Binary options for sex, when it is clear that sex exists along a spectrum. At the very least, there should be the option to choose Female (F), Male (M), or Other (X).
  3. That sex being glued to a child for the rest of their life, unless they present medical papers to prove otherwise.

Gender is not binary

Gender Diversity Across the Animal Kingdom

Finally, gender diversity is widely present across the animal kingdom. For example, seahorses, pipefish, and sea dragons all have pregnancy as a male reproductive process. In these species, the male fertilizes eggs that are deposited within a pouch in his belly and then he carries his developing embryos until they are ready to be birthed.

In another example, female spotted hyenas have a pseudo-penis that is capable of erection and can be as much as 90% the size of a male hyena’s penis.

They have two fleshy masses at the base of their pseudopenis that contain fat and connective tissue which appear analogous to a scrotum. Where you’d expect there to be a vagina, spotted hyena females have fused labia. Female spotted hyenas also dominate males behaviorally.

Chickens can also naturally undergo gender changes. This is because female chickens only use one functional ovary on their left side. However, they have two sex organs that are present from their embryonic stage onward through their lifespan. If the left ovary shrinks within a hen, then its right gonad may start secreting androgens, turning the hen into a rooster.

In short, sex and gender exist as a spectrum for humans and animals (and in fact, plants too). We might as well embrace it, because after all, natural variation has caused the rise of our species to 7.8 billion strong!


AUTHOR BIO: Cade Hildreth attended Dartmouth College & Smith College for Undergraduate Studies in Biology and then acquired a Master’s Degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with Specialization in Biotechnology from Georgetown University, where they were Valedictorian. Cade is the Founder/President of BioInformant.com, the world’s largest stem cell industry news site that attracts nearly one million views per year and serves all-star clients that include GE Healthcare, Pfizer, Goldman Sachs, PerkinElmer, and Merck. Cade has authored over one-thousand articles about the stem cell industry and interviewed hundreds of executives from across the industry. As a media expert on stem cells, Cade has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, Xconomy, & Vogue Magazine. As a professional real estate investor, Cade owns a portfolio of residential and commercial properties.


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  1. Brian says

    December 27, 2020 at 5:36 pm

    Wonderful article, Cade! This is a fascinating and important topic which needs to be thoroughly examined – as you are doing – in order for society to evolve and find ways to help all people feel welcome and accepted.
    I have long believed gender and sex are on a continuum and I was pleased to see your explanation of the bimodal reality of both these attributes.
    A point of confusion arose for me when you mentioned you are non-binary. How can this be possible if there isn’t a binary? Shouldn’t one say non-bimodal or intersex…or intergender? I feel the non-binary term assumes a binary which, as you point out, doesn’t exist. How can one be non-binary if there isn’t a binary? And, in a sense, those who don’t wish to be known as non-binary but also don’t identify as “typical male” or “typical female” – but believe in the continuum – are a bit “imprisoned” by a term that assumes a binary.
    I would love your thoughts here if you have the chance to respond.
    Many thanks for your thoughtfully written and super informative article.

    Reply
  2. Gerardo Heredia says

    June 29, 2020 at 12:33 pm

    Fascinating article. What I don’t have clear now is about those who identify as nongender. Is it possible no to have a gender? Does that mean they have not developed their identity?. I also was reading about the brain plasticity and how it is not a proof that gender is binary as it evolves according to our experiences and what we learn that happens to be determined by boys do this and girls do that. So that would also mean that the brain differences and changes would be irrelevant for gender identity as well if boys or girls start having experiences out of the social role assigned to their sex. I’d like to know your point of view on this.

    Reply
  3. Nana says

    June 21, 2020 at 2:46 pm

    I like that this article takes a more neutral approach than other LGBTQ+ claims supposed to be “based on scientific facts” (or is it just because the article itself is too vague and thus does not touch the bottom of the sex =/= gender issue?).

    This article shows that non-binary+trans genders exist naturally (as opposed to artificially).
    However, this leads to the ever-debated question of “Do parents have to let their child take hormonal treatment/surgery if their child identify more to a certain gender? And if yes, starting at what age?”, which is basically one of the two core gender issues of society today, the other one being the recognition of sex/gender differentiation by governements + “normal” population + LGBTQ+ population (yes, even the LGBTQ+ population has issues identifying and separating both!).

    Unfortunately, these issues are sociological and not biological, so they can only be solved by the continuing effort of communication to the “normal” population and governments by the LGBTQ+ population, in order to make society evolve toward a model where they will be recognized and accepted.

    However, this is truly a good and short enough article to refute all the ever-so-present arguments about non-binary genders being mind constructs!

    Reply
    • Jordan Lundenburg says

      December 10, 2020 at 3:50 am

      Hello! It’s important to be mindful of what a child says. If your kid’s sex is female and they begin to experiment with the idea of being more of something else, then acknowledge that. Personally, If my kid were to be having these thoughts around 5, I’d brush it off and see where it goes. If they’re still having these thoughts a year or two later, I would take them out to the store and get them clothes they’d be more comfortable in, start using the pronouns they want. See how they feel. If it ends up not being for them, that’s fine. If it is then I’d wait till puberty to get hormone blockers. If they want surgery, It would be at a time where I feel they’re mature enough to make the decision. Like 16. They can always do it themself at 18 anyway.

      Reply
  4. Simon B says

    January 17, 2020 at 10:36 am

    A very well written piece on sex and gender, which I intend to share with all my friends. I’m just a cishet guy, and my mum gave me this observation way back in the 1960s. She said, “Everybody’s different, but we are all human beings”, she really was an intelligent woman.

    Reply
  5. Finn says

    January 16, 2020 at 6:48 pm

    well done! thank you!

    Reply
  6. Erica Pelz says

    January 15, 2020 at 3:16 pm

    Thank you for an exceptionally well written piece on the spectrums of gender and sex. I’ll add this to my list of reference material, and look up the studies you referenced. By chance would you be willing to share the bibliography? I’m sure I can find it but would save me some digging. Thabks again!

    Reply
  7. Ali Su says

    January 15, 2020 at 7:10 am

    How does one find out their sex genes? Is there somewhere to get tested. I identify as gender queer not transgender. Born female but always felt neutral about gender. Was wondering if maybe I have more than two X

    Reply
  8. JK says

    January 14, 2020 at 11:15 pm

    Great breakdown of a topic that comes up a lot with some religious/transphobic people in my life. I find this info extremely helpful!

    Reply
  9. Jason Masters says

    January 6, 2020 at 5:26 pm

    Excellent summary

    Reply

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