Section 7

Citation: Section 7
Parent Document: Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)
Jurisdiction: United States (federal)
Effective Date: 2020-06-15
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4760997/bostock-v-clayton-county/ ↗

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peculiarities of living beings that subserves biparental re-
  production with its concomitant genetic segregation and
  recombination which underlie most evolutionary change,
  that in its typical dichotomous occurrence is usu. genet-
  ically controlled and associated with special sex chromo-
  somes, and that is typically manifested as maleness and
  femaleness with one or the other of these being present
  in most higher animals though both may occur in the
  same individual in many plants and some invertebrates
  and though no such distinction can be made in many
  lower forms (as some fungi, protozoans, and possibly bac-
  teria and viruses) either because males and females are
  replaced by mating types or because the participants in
  sexual reproduction are indistinguishable—compare
  HETEROTHALLIC, HOMOTHALLIC; FERTILIZATION, MEIOSIS,
  MENDEL’S LAW; FREEMARTIN, HERMAPHRODITE, INTERSEX
  3: the sphere of interpersonal behavior esp. between male
  and female most directly associated with, leading up to,
  substituting for, or resulting from genital union <agree
  that the Christian’s attitude toward ~ should not be con-
  sidered apart from love, marriage, family—M. M. For-
  ney> 4: the phenomena of sexual instincts and their man-
  ifestations <with his customary combination of
  philosophy, insight, good will toward the world, and en-
  tertaining interest in ~—Allen Drury> <studying and as-
  sembling what modern scientists have discovered about
  ~—Time>; specif: SEXUAL INTERCOURSE <an old law im-
  posing death for ~ outside marriage—William Empson>
2sex \“\ vt –ED/–ING/–ES 1: to determine the sex of (an organic

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