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There is absolutely NOTHING in the definitions for the sexes in any reputable dictionaries, encyclopedias, or biological journals about "POTENTIALLY capable of producing large or small gametes". They're generally all about actually being capable of producing gametes on a regular basis, right now; not yesterday and not tomorrow.

See the Glossary in this Oxford Journal of Molecular Human Reproduction:

academic.oup.com/molehr/article/20/12/1…

And in the definition in the Oxford Dictionary of Biology according to this tweet:

twitter.com/pwkilleen/status/1039879009…

See another tweet from the same fellow:

PK: "Strictly speaking it’s the sex that an individual is disposed to develop into that is determined at conception, i.e. the sex that a person will become *if* they develop the ability to produce gametes. This is one of the few contexts where that particular distinction matters."

twitter.com/pwkilleen/status/1039829533…

Likewise those in the Oxford Dictionaries:

"female (adjective): Of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs, distinguished biologically by the production of gametes (ova) which can be fertilized by male gametes."

"male (adjective): Of or denoting the sex that produces gametes, especially spermatozoa, with which a female may be fertilized or inseminated to produce offspring."

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