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Also not how biological sex works either. The sperm carries both X and Y, contributing only one at time of fertilization (except for the rare chromosomal variation).
Also, not at all related to spin of an electron. Not everything is impossible to observe state and location at the same time. I, for example, am currently observable on my couch with minimal motion in any direction.
In particle physics, a hadron takes on attributes like charge, up/down, or left/right by simple addition of the attributes of constituent particles. But in biology, there is not a simple correspondence of any sex chromosome pattern to anatomical sex presentation. X, XX, XY, XXY, XYY, chimeras and more are viable patterns and none of them guarantee presentation as anatomically male, female, or intersex. Different rules at such vastly different scales.