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    1. Bodily outlines are also dynamic within individuals, with whatindicates sex within-bodily outline changing over time, need, andage. Sex changes for everyone; for example, no one is born withbreasts. Instead, adults and younger people who have them do sobecause of endogenous hormonal processes, exogenous hormoneuse, surgical processes, and/or material in clothing items like bras.

      I found this interesting because it makes a good point. In America, people tend to say the female sex qualifications involve the identification of breasts. However, young adolescents do not have breasts until puberty, and even then, breasts don't always form for all females. Does that make them less female for lacking a certain quality that ties them to their sex?

    2. . Yet binaries are notoriously inept atdescribing the world, most poignantly because they exclude real-ities that exist beyond them (Fausto-Sterling, 2020; Waters, 2001).

      This part of the passage is almost, if not exactly criticizing the viewpoint of this concept. It states the fact that the sex-gender binary and nature-nuture/culture binary isn't considering the outside viewpoints of what sex and gender are across different cultures and enviorments. That they aren't considering that there might not be a definite universal way of viewing gender.

    3. Human biobehavioral research is often rooted in and supports two interrelated binaries: one that divides andessentializes humans into two sexes and values maleness over femaleness, and a second that divides behaviorinto two sides, assigning more truth to one—nature and sex—over the other—gender, nurture, and culture.

      Though I'm not sure this counts as a valid bias annotation; I can identify that two biases are being addressed. It is talking about two concepts of sex and gender. One group believes in a more conservative way of viewing the topic, in which there are only two possible sexes and that male qualities are valued over females. While the other view explores a more open-viewed way of seeing the concept of sex and gender across different variations.