Sex, like all genetics, is way more important to how people turn out than people give credit for lol. That's beyond the cheating route and using strictly physical differences. Height, weight, puberty, etc.

It's kinda like the back swing to people complaining that parents should be lynched for something their children do. The Sins of the Father runs both ways. People really don't like to think that the genetic roll of the lottery can give you a serial killer though. The entropy of life is a hard thing for pattern seeking humans to deal with.

Boys and girls are different, but most psychological sex differences are modest in size. For example, gaps in verbal skills, math performance, empathy and even most types of aggression are generally much smaller than the disparity in adult height, in which the average five-foot, 10-inch man in the U.S. is taller than 98 percent of U.S. women. When it comes to mental abilities, males and females overlap much more than they differ.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-differences-in-boys-and-girls-how-much-is-inborn/

Helicopter or hands-off parenting? The choice won't impact a kid as much as you think

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1193176710

Lots of evidence going back and forth regarding how male / female brain structure has an influence on gender incongruence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_gender_incongruence

Brothers and fathers of men convicted of sexual offences are up to five times more likely to be convicted of sexual offences than men in the general population, a new study shows. Genetic factors were found to make a substantial contribution to this increased risk with the shared family environment having a relatively small influence.

https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/sex-offending-genes-more-important-than-family-environment

Contemporary research in neurobiology (a branch of science that deals with the anatomy,[9] physiology, and pathology of nervous system) of addiction points to genetics as a major contributing factor to addiction vulnerability. It has been estimated that 40–60% of the vulnerability to developing an addiction is due to genetics.[10][11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction_vulnerability#Genetic_factors

Aberrant brain activity in pedophilia links to receptor distribution, gene expression, and behavior

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-023-00105-0

A good read about how the cards can be stacked against people from the moment they're born. You might still end up with a winning hand, but it's just that much harder.

Minor Physical Anomalies and Congenital Malformations

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00940/full

All men are created equal is the biggest lie there ever was. I wonder if there will ever be such a thing as genetic equity.

Sex, like all things, matters. How much you attribute to it can vary anywhere from 0 to 100 due to what you get stuck with in your DNA. Sussing out those nuances is going to takes us decades to centuries still.

Nature probably has way more control over nurture than we would like to think. It's much easier to look down on others in disgust than compassion though and I'm a much bigger optimist and advocate for understanding others than Lemmy likes lol. I'm also for free will over determinism both philosophically and through quantum physics... but sex, something genes are very much tied to, matters.

Blood type? I blame that for how much mosquitos like me, besides oily ass skin.

E: More sauce and tidbits.

Oddly I think parties like this would be more beneficial to the child.

If my parents had thought to have a joint mobility party for me, then maybe my hip joint deformity would have been found in infancy, when it's treatable, and not when I was 17 after years of being told I had "growing pains".