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That article seems to counter your above points about using secondary characteristics pretty directly.
As well:
The article counters the claim that everyone can be placed into the binary.
It seems that "sex is a binary" but we have to exclude folks that don't fit into it. Looks like the meme we're commenting on is still pretty applicable lol.
So now to me it looks like sex is a binary nested in the larger binary of unambiguous and ambiguous sex. Giving folks 3 places they could end up, one of those places (ambiguous sex) being a spectrum. But thats only if we are going to be super technical. I probably wouldn't correct someone for seeing that disjointed spectrum as a regular spectrum.
I do love a pedant though. I'm not even joking. For example: the comedian David Mitchell.
It's been fun taking the time to learn all of this. Thanks for all the links.
Posted another link elsewhere that explains the ambiguous terminology a bit:
https://projectnettie.wordpress.com/
I think the answer you're looking for is that ambiguous is being used in the sense of "not immediately obvious, requires further investigation", not "impossible to know in principle"
Either way, thanks for the conversation (and pedantry!)