I totally agree with your comment. If we’re sorting people based on reproductive capacity, we should be comfortable acknowledging “sexless” as a category bin because clearly it applies to a lot of people.

I also fully agree that the colloquial understanding of “male/female” remains a useful sorting mechanism, but we should be more honest about how fuzzy the definition is. Right now the best we really have for justifying putting infertile individuals as male/female is a vague allusion to their “potential” functionality or generalized “body plan”. I’m fairly confident I know what people are trying to say, but it’s ok to expect better.