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Are trans women biologically male?(theconversation.com)

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cephyrious 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun 2 months ago

Of course it links to the stupid nature article about some extreme edgecase where one embryo merged with another embryo and ended up with a one in a billion intersex condition to say "sex is not as simple as we thought!". It's so assinine.

ID10T 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun 2 months ago

My retort to when these gender nonsense advocates say "there are intersex people therefore we can't say how many sexes there are", I respond "just because a genetic defect occasionally causes someone to be born without an arm doesn't mean we can't say how many arms humans have".

OuroborosTheory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun 2 months ago

and intersex activists (mostly against "repairing" gentles, at least until puberty/18) do NOT like the (overwhelmingly non-dysphoric) "activists" skinwalking their way into yet another thing to take over, like PCOS and, uh, trans activism itself

because they're NOT cichlids or gila lizards or XX/XY chimeras or androgen-insensitive, they haven't "always been here," they're exactly a decade old and they all look like that naughty Ben Franklin reenactor from The Office

Nonbinaryandroid 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 2 months ago

I just stress that intersex people are not trans.

Is the confressperson intersex? Nope. OK why are we talking about intersex.

Big difference between an inborn sexual abnormality and a mental condition that convinces you to take hormones and surgically alter your genitalia.

cephyrious 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 2 months ago

I usually use fingers. We know 5 fingers is the default. Someone being born with 6, or who loses one and goes down to 4 are still just as human as everyone else. It doesn't matter for anything. They don't need to use a different bathroom or have special rights.