you seem to be conflating spectra and continua. height is a continuum. a spectrum would involve various different qualities. think different frequencies of light appearing each in different intensities. (it doesn't help that the frequencies of light are themselves another continuum, which I believe contributes to this frequent conflation)

you're right that not everything in nature is a spectrum, but most macroscopic things are a continuum. digitizing features takes significant effort for no advantage, so it's rare. you might contend that gender is such a feature, or that sex is such a feature, but even there you'd be mistaken because nature finds a way, and so taking a binary for granted is an oversimplification. there are species not too different from ours that transition naturally when nature calls for it, and others in which sexual bodily features depend not on a chromosome but on e.g. temperature at a certain stage of fetal development. it's unlikely that these complex phenomena have evolved exclusively in those branches of the tree of line, so odds are that our own genetic programming carries traces of that, and they might even be expressed in ways that we haven't quite figured out.

how about you enjoy (or not) your subjective experience but allow others to enjoy (or not) their own, acknowledging that they may be different and that that's ok?

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