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Interesting, but methinks much of it is based on definitions for the sexes that are no better than folk biology.
Y'all might have some interest, "unhinged" or not, in some observations thereon by Paul Griffiths and Tomas Bogardus:
Griffiths: "So worker bees are ‘female’ in the extended sense that they would develop into fertile females if they weren’t actively prevented from doing so. …. Workers and soldiers are both ‘female’ in an extended sense, but not in the full-blown sense that queen ants are female. There is a human imperative to give everything a sex, as mentioned above, but biology doesn’t share it."
About the most one can get out of “extended sense” is no better than “nominally speaking”, or for reference purposes only.
Those "female" bees really aren't; they just look like them -- the way Jenner "looks" like an adult human female (if one was blind drunk). But they are -- as you've agreed -- missing the "functional gonads" that are, by the "universal" definitions stipulated in the MHR, the sine qua non for sex category membership. They're sexLESS, neither male nor female -- arguably, "non-binary".
