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BOSTOCK v. CLAYTON COUNTY 

ALITO, J., dissenting
Appendix B to opinion of ALITO, J. 

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
indistinguishable—compare 
sexual  reproduction  are 
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 
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
being) <it is difficult to ~ the animals at a distance—E. A.
Hooton>—compare AUTOSEXING 2 a: to increase the sex-
ual  appeal  or  attraction  of—usu.  used  with  up  <titles 
must be ~ed up to attract 56 million customers—Time> 
b: to arouse the sexual instincts or desires of—usu. used 
with up <watching you ~ing up that bar kitten—Oakley Hall> 

customary