They're def both spectrums. Regarding the sex spectrum a lot of people will point out intersex people, but also remember that things like hormone levels vary a lot between seemingly typical members of each sex, so it isn't like every non intersex person on the planet sits comfortably on one of two spots, it's more of a bimodal distribution.
Chuds trashed it when it came out, but the Bill Nye Saves the World episode on sex and gender was spot on with this concept, also adding "expression" and "attraction" as spectrums alongside sex and gender. IMO I think even these abstractions of the concepts at play are probably simplifying the dizzyingly complex web of interactions going on in the brain, but science education is always playing a balancing act between explaining everything we know and keeping things manageable for non-experts.
They're def both spectrums. Regarding the sex spectrum a lot of people will point out intersex people, but also remember that things like hormone levels vary a lot between seemingly typical members of each sex, so it isn't like every non intersex person on the planet sits comfortably on one of two spots, it's more of a bimodal distribution.
Chuds trashed it when it came out, but the Bill Nye Saves the World episode on sex and gender was spot on with this concept, also adding "expression" and "attraction" as spectrums alongside sex and gender. IMO I think even these abstractions of the concepts at play are probably simplifying the dizzyingly complex web of interactions going on in the brain, but science education is always playing a balancing act between explaining everything we know and keeping things manageable for non-experts.