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[–]Spikygrasspod 36 insightful - 13 fun36 insightful - 12 fun37 insightful - 13 fun -  (2 children)

The Scientific American article says "New evidence suggests that the brain consists of a “mosaic” of cell types, some more yin, others further along the yang scale."

Ah yes, the science of yin and yang cells.

[–]WrongToy[S] 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

She is confusing ovatesticular disorder (an intersex disorder) with being trans. Yes I did a deep dive into what used to be called "true hermaphrodites" and came up with one case in the medical literature of someone who was a genetic chimera and who had a baby. Because they were a chimera.

That's like 1 in 7 billion odds that don't reflect whatever percentage of totally physiologically normal people who are identifying for a social reason.

[–]Spikygrasspod 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Very interesting. And there's microchimerism. Which is also very interesting, but it doesn't change the fact that there are two natural kinds (with some exceptions) and that we can tell each other apart well enough to create a society that places roughly half of us under systematic threat of domination by the other half, other axes of oppression and domination notwithstanding.

This whole distraction annoys me so much because sex based oppression definitely won't go away if we let deconstructionists murder the words and concepts that describe it...