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[–]xoenix[S] 19 insightful - 12 fun19 insightful - 11 fun20 insightful - 12 fun -  (3 children)

Meltdown on Reddit.

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On brand for a pro-Hitler “news source.” Article just oozes FART propaganda and red herrings. From a biologist, fuck them, fuck them all, go back to high school and relearn anatomy/endocrinology/genetics properly.

[–]Haylstorm 22 insightful - 9 fun22 insightful - 8 fun23 insightful - 9 fun -  (0 children)

Real reddit moment lol.

"This doesn't agree with me therefore it's wrong and evil." Committing the grave sin of...having a different opinion. You know they're not even a real biologist either, just saying that for fake clout.

[–][deleted] 19 insightful - 6 fun19 insightful - 5 fun20 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Why does every TERF article read with exactly the same talking points and cadence? I swear there’s a bot farm spitting these out.

Probably because we are all trying to make the same basic point: that male and female are actual, real, immutable categories despite your gender feefees.

[–]Objecting_Sphere 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My high school taught "anatomy/endocrinology/genetics properly". My degree in biochemistry and minor in neurology also covered these topics extensively. Guess what? The science supports biological sex in the conventional sense.

This idea that "the science says" there's no such thing as biological sex is political bullshit. Sure, it's possible to have an intersex condition. It's possible to have opposite sex characteristics. But biology has extensively documented the sexual dimorphism of our species.

I think things would have gone better if biologists manned up and referred to developmental defects properly - as defects. Not that the afflicted people should feel shame or anything, but intersex conditions are fundamentally developmental or genetic defects. Not a part of the healthy variation in our species.

Similarly, all forms of body dysphoria are mental illnesses. Understand that dysphoric people often present with comorbid depression and/or autism. We need to treat dysphoria similarly to depression, not like the sufferers "were born in the wrong body" whatever that means.