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    Darn that science, keep that liberal where it belongs, in the humanities.

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    Reading the discussions and some of the disagreements, a correction is needed to be more precise.

    Some XX people will be Assigned Male At Birth. Some XY people will be Assigned Female At Birth.

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      I agree. Doctorate in Biology =/= Doctorate in Religion. She’s not right because she’s a doctor, she’s right because she’s right.

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      Those are two real medical diagnoses - Swyer syndrome or XY gonadal dysgenesis for XY women (occurs in about 1:100000 women) and de la Chapelle syndrome or XX male syndrome for XX men (occurs in about 1:20000 to 1:30000 men)

      Here is a NORD report on Swyer syndrome, as well as the original article on de la Chapelle syndrome: 1.https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/swyer-syndrome/ 2.https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1762158/

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      A person’s biological sex usually refers to their status as female or male depending on their chromosomes, reproductive organs, and other characteristics. Chromosomes are tightly packed DNA, or molecules that contain the genetic instructions for the development and functioning of all living things. Humans typically have forty-six chromosomes. Two of those are sex chromosomes that contain instructions for the development and functioning of characteristics related to biological sex, such as reproductive organs. There are two kinds of human sex chromosomes, X and Y. Individuals identified as males tend to have one X and one Y chromosome, while those identified as females tend to have two X chromosomes. However, other people are born with other chromosome combinations, such as XXY, that lead them to develop a mix of characteristics. People who fit that description are often referred to as intersex, a category for people whose bodies do not conform with stereotypical expectations of males or females at birth.

      Taken from here

      Evidence seems pretty strong to me.

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        Yeah, and those are malformations and genetical defects that come with a lot of problems.

        I don’t know why people glorify them… Also, there is absolutely no way that a man born with XY magically will change it in their lifetime as the posts sugests.

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          The post suggests that some people with XY chromosomes are assigned female at birth and will live as a woman.
          And some people with XX chromosomes are assigned male at birth and will live as a man.
          Not that the chromosomes change.

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          This article seems to disagree. But I don’t know much on the subject so I might be misunderstanding.

          Also, no matter what the correct answer is, pretending the answer is binary is definitely wrong. Since it’s obviously a lot more complicated.

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            From the article:

            “Girls born with XY chromosomes are genetically boys but for a variety of reasons – mutations in genes that determine sexual development”

            And again, they don’t magically become the other sex, that was already determined at birth.

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                Well, to be fair, not magically and not in any other way, it is impossible to change your sex

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                  You’re the only one talking about this. A change can occur without any surgery. Reread the article to understand better, please.

                  You read the article and you even quoted it. It says how xx people can be men and how xy people can be women. Nobody said anything about any surgery or magic pill that grows a penis or whatever you’re imagining.

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      it is basic biology, ie biology simplified to teach a kid in middle school. the thing is sciences don’t stop at middle school level. a lot of university education is about clarifying that things you learned before were simplified to the point that they’re practically useless if not outright wrong.

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        Light travels in straight lines, next year its a wave and then its particles. What you said isso true about uni rethreading.

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          Tap for spoiler

          You don’t technically need particles!

          Meet me next week for more hot physics takes nobody needed.

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          To be fair light does travel in straight lines (more or less… ignoring that nothing travels in any set or even single path something something veritasium video), its not lights fault if a straight line in physical reality doesn’t always happen to match up with the geometry we invented.

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      thee are only 2 atoms in the universe: hydrogen (74%) and helium (24%). so you’re either a Hydrogen, a Helium or have a syndrome

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        Oh yes, I very sure we can compare atoms with humans. Maybe inside the sun a man can become a woman and vice-versa

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          They’re pointing out the stupidity of your argument, since it depends on ignoring the fact that the remaining 5% exist, in the same way that classifying everything as those two elements requires ignoring the fact that the other 1% of matter exists

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          are you a preschooler?

          then hydrogen can become helium and helium can become hydrogen, right?

          yes, are you going to use “basic physics” too??

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            Welp, honest mistake. For some reason I thought hydrogen and helium can only create other atoms, not become eachother.

            Still, my point stands, humans are no atoms

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                Well yeah, literally you are shaped by your genome

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                  Genome is not the only thing that shapes what a person is. Gene expression is variable as well. The world, and people, are more complicated than that.

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      XY it’s man, XX it’s woman, nothing will ever change that…

      I think it’s really funny you left out the exact intersex conditions that disprove your point, Swyer syndrome and de la Chapelle syndrome.

      You are either a man, a woman, or you have a syndrome

      So someone with de la Chapelle syndrome is neither a man nor a woman but has a syndrome? ‘Man’ and ‘woman’ are social categories and syndrome is not, so this makes no sense. Also I doubt you’d be able to spot the ‘syndrome’ in a group of men.

      It’s a delusion to believe that you can change your biological sex during your lifetime.

      This is a strawman I see repeated a lot. I’ve never seen trans advocates claim this, only opponents. Even then I would still argue that it is true to some extent. Sex is not just chromosomes (as proven by the two conditions I linked above). It’s made up of many different characteristics and you can change some of them, e.g. with hormone replacement therapy, which changes some secondary sex characteristics. Or even just gynecomastia does it too.

      For people who are interested in what the actual science says about this topic I recommend Forrest Valkai’s new Sex and Sensibility video (warning, it’s long).

      Edit:

      And no, you won’t change speech, you are a man and a he, a woman and a she. That’s it, you can get as angry as you want, nothing will ever change that.

      Language is completely made up and changes all the time. But you’re claiming it will never change again?

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        I think it’s really funny you left out the exact intersex conditions that disprove your point, Swyer syndrome and de la Chapelle syndrome.

        And again, those are conditions, not something you choose to be, you are simply born like that.

        So someone with de la Chapelle syndrome is neither a man nor a woman but has a syndrome?

        Well than, waht is someone with Chappel syndrome?

        Sex is not just chromosomes (as proven by the two conditions I linked above)

        Oh yes, it’s also the malformations that you were born with

        with hormone replacement therapy, which changes some secondary sex characteristics. Or even just gynecomastia does it too.

        oh so you need drugs to mimic traits from the opposite sex (there are only two after all) and gender is given by your sex.

        Forrest Valkai’s new Sex and Sensibility video (warning, it’s long).

        I am actually gonna watch this

        Language is completely made up and changes all the time. But you’re claiming it will never change again?

        Yes, language is not “made up” it evolved and will evolve naturally, demanding language to change to cater to you is not natural.

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          You’re approaching this discussion from a place of certainty, but the reality of biology, language, and human variation is more complex than the rigid model you’re presenting.

          A few key points:

          1. If sex is strictly XX = woman and XY = man, how do you explain the people who don’t fit that?

          1 in 50 people has a variation of sex development (VSD). That’s not an anomaly, but a substantial population.

          Genetic chimerism, which is rarely tested for, suggests as many as 12% of people have mixed chromosomal expressions—that’s 3 in every 25 people who do not neatly fit XX or XY.

          Any woman who has ever had a child is a genetic chimera, because she retains some of her child’s DNA, meaning many women carry male DNA within their bodies.

          If sex were as simple as XX/XY, these biological realities wouldn’t exist. But they do, and they complicate the notion that sex is an unchangeable binary.


          1. If hormones don’t affect biological sex, why do they permanently alter the body?

          Puberty is a hormonal process. It reshapes bodies, voices, muscle structure, brain development, and reproductive function.

          If sex were truly “fixed,” introducing testosterone or estrogen wouldn’t fundamentally change these same traits in adults. But it does.

          So which is it? If hormones don’t influence sex, then puberty doesn’t matter either. If they do, then transitioning alters biological characteristics in ways that contradict your claims.


          1. If language is purely “natural evolution,” why has it been deliberately changed by societies and governments throughout history?

          Modern Italian was not a natural evolution—it was imposed on Italy’s diverse dialects by the state.

          After WWI, German was banned in schools and public institutions in parts of the U.S.

          The French government has actively tried to suppress regional languages like Breton and Occitan to enforce a singular linguistic identity.

          These weren’t “organic” shifts—they were deliberate policy changes. If language only changes on its own, these documented historical events should not have been possible.

          If entire nations have altered their linguistic structures through conscious intervention, why would the evolution of gendered language be any different?


          1. You argue that intersex people are “rare,” but rarity does not erase reality.

          Left-handed people make up about 10% of the population—a minority, but we don’t dismiss their existence because they aren’t the majority.

          The number of people with red hair is lower than the percentage of intersex people, yet no one claims red hair is “unnatural.”

          Statistical frequency doesn’t determine what is real. Something doesn’t need to be common to be biologically significant.


          1. The pattern in your responses suggests you are more emotionally invested in this topic than you claim.

          You’ve repeatedly expressed personal relief that trans people are not common in your area. That’s not a neutral scientific observation—that’s a personal bias.

          You dismiss contradictory biological realities by calling them “defects” rather than engaging with what they actually mean.

          You insist this discussion is about “logic,” yet when presented with genetic, medical, and linguistic evidence, you shift the argument rather than addressing the inconsistencies.

          If you want to engage with this topic honestly, you’ll have to account for these contradictions instead of sidestepping them. If your argument is strong, it should be able to withstand scrutiny. If it can’t, then maybe the issue isn’t with the facts—it’s with the assumptions you started with.

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          And again, those are conditions, not something you choose to be, you are simply born like that.

          I was pointing out how XX doesn’t always mean female and XY doesn’t always mean male. I didn’t say you could change your chromosomes. I think you might be misunderstanding the OP. When it says ‘some XX people become cis men’ it means that embryos with XX chromosomes develop into cis men, not that they decide to be later in life.

          Well than, waht is someone with Chappel syndrome?

          Usually a man.

          Oh yes, it’s also the malformations that you were born with

          How do you differentiate between “normal” and a malformation? These are just arbitrary categories we made up. The reality is that we can observe that some humans just are like that and that’s fine and normal.

          oh so you need drugs to mimic traits from the opposite sex (there are only two after all) and gender is given by your sex.

          You’re moving the goalposts. You were arguing that you can’t change sex and now you’re retreating to ‘you need drugs to change sex’, which is true for HRT, but not necessarily for gynecomastia.

          It’s also not “mimicking” traits. Someone with gynecomastia or someone who takes feminising HRT grows the same kind of breasts as a cis woman.

          Yes, language is not “made up” it evolved and will evolve naturally, demanding language to change to cater to you is not natural.

          Even if this was true it would just be an appeal to nature. Natural doesn’t mean good and unnatural doesn’t mean bad.

          But I don’t think you can differentiate between ‘natural’ and ‘unnatural’ changes to language. Do you think language just evolves on its own without any human interference? Language is by definition something we do.

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            I think you might be misunderstanding the OP.

            Yes, I actually was

            How do you differentiate between “normal” and a malformation?

            If you need special care or attention that is a malformation. If there is a change in your physionomy that impedes you to have a life as normal as other human (you were born without a hand) that’s a malformation.

            You were arguing that you can’t change sex and now you’re retreating to ‘you need drugs to change sex’

            I was actually arguing that you can’t change your genome, so yeah, sex. But by HRT you still don’t change that, you just try to mimic traits oposite of yours.

            Do you think language just evolves on its own without any human interference? Language is by definition something we do.

            Of course language can be influenced, but usually when it is, it’s for ease of understanding, and generally making people lives better.

            By changing the language just for some people to be triggered because they were “misgendered” you don’t bring any value

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              If you need special care or attention that is a malformation. If there is a change in your physionomy that impedes you to have a life as normal as other human (you were born without a hand) that’s a malformation.

              This doesn’t apply to many of the intersex conditions we talked about. They can present in a way where people don’t even notice they have them.

              I was actually arguing that you can’t change your genome, so yeah, sex. But by HRT you still don’t change that, you just try to mimic traits oposite of yours.

              We’ve already established that genome doesn’t exclusively determine sex. An XX male could live their entire life as a man and never even know that they have XX and not XY chromosomes.

              Of course language can be influenced, but usually when it is, it’s for ease of understanding, and generally making people lives better. By changing the language just for some people to be triggered because they were “misgendered” you don’t bring any value

              It brings value to the people who are affected. And we do this sort of thing a lot. Just like almost nobody says the n-word any more because we’ve collectively decided that it’s inappropriate.

              Honestly it feels like you’re doing all these mental gymnastics just so you can have a justification for being rude to trans people. Is that really how you want to spend your energy?

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        Arguments mate, or you are just wasting our time.

        Let me ask you this:

        What is the 3rd gender that one can “transition” to? Does one need to take drugs to impede their biological physiology to work properly if they want to “transition”? If one stops taking hormonal drugs what will happen?

        Any individual can have different traits:

        • a woman can be agressive, impatient with kids and mean
        • a man can be a good cook, can like to clean take care of kids and easy to scare
        • a woman can be good at fighting and assertive
        • a man can have mood swings

        Nothing of what I said makes anyone less of a man or woman, they are EXACTLY what they were born with whatever masculine or feminine traits they have.

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          You haven’t read anything about this. It’s very clear. The first thing you learn is that sex and gender are different. Sex is biology. Gender is identity.

          The second thing you learn is that sex is not binary. (And gender, being a social construct, certainly is not set in stone.) Genes may be XX, but maybe some other factor may be preventing that gene from expressing fully or even at all. This can lead to highly androgynous folks or folks with odd genital configurations. It takes genes, gene expression, and hormones for a human to express characteristics of some sex. Not all three of these are perfectly aligned. You can argue that genes control all of it, but that doesn’t stand. Genes can conflict, and environmental factors can affect things.

          I learned all that and more in just twenty minutes of reading. Please, go do some homework. Start with “what is the difference between sex and gender,” then let the rabbit hole take you down. At least, that’s the path that helped me learn a bunch of this stuff.

          And regarding Dunning-Kruger, the key point is confidence. That said, I’ll caveat all the above I’ve said with this is just stuff that I’ve read from sources that I trust, which I can corroborate with my existing knowledge of genetics and broader biology. I’m not an expert. I can be proven wrong. Most of this is definitions and quite simple stuff, so my confidence is high but still shakeable.

          Normally, I’m a stickler about answering asked questions, but your questions seem to be based on a misunderstanding of definitions. Once you get that sorted out, we can try again and maybe learn something together

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          “what is the third gender” your deliberate misunderstanding and simplification of the issue is just bad faith debate. you’re proving us that fractions are “syndromes” by using only integers. this is just a display of ignorance and bigotry, it doesn’t really paint you as smart as you’re trying to appear

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            So we agree that there are

            XX - woman XY - man

            And some genetic mutationa in between XXY - Klinfelter syndrome XXXY - no idea how this is called X -Turner syndrome XX intersex XY intersex And true gonadal intersex

            And still these are medical conditions, a man on drugs wearing a wig is still a man, and a woman on drugs to grow facial hair is still a woman.

            It’s a he and a she regardless

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              Honey, nobody claims that trans women are biologically identical to cis women or the other way around. Sex is not gender.

              And chromosomal deviations is exactly what the PhD in the OP is talking about. You can call them medical conditions if you like, but that doesn’t change the fact that there are XY women and XX cis men.

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                Ok here I can see my lack in logic. I understood that the PhD was saying that XX can change into XY during the life of the person, not that they are born XY and naturally develop female traits.

                My only pet peeve with all this is “misgendering” which I honestly despise. If one is a grown up 180cm male I’m never gonna call him a “her” just because of a wig and makeup.

                But if someone was raised as a woman because that’s how her body developed even if she has XY chromosomes I won’t call her “he”.

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                  just because of a wig and makeup

                  Why do bigots always assume trans women can’t grow their own hair?

                  Is the assumption seriously that your average trans woman looks like a burly bearded man with a receding hairline?

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                  My only pet peeve with all this is “misgendering” which I honestly despise. If one is a grown up 180cm male I’m never gonna call him a “her” just because of a wig and makeup.

                  Interesting.

                  What if they were 165cm, had the face and body and voice of a woman and you had no idea they were trans? Would you call them He if you found out?

                  Would you call a big burly bearded guy She after you found out they are a trans man?

                  If yes, why so? If no, why so?

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              so we agree that

              1: one 2: two

              and then there are just some numbers in between, 0.1, 0.2…

              this is just a fact, you coming in these comments wielding words you don’t understand and concepts you barely grasps doesn’t make you smart or correct

              you’re just a bigot regardless

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                Numbers that can be proven mathematically. The gender idiology is nothing more than:

                “Today I feel…”

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                  gender is nothing more than “today i feel”

                  congrats on your strawman, you’re really driving your point home

                  numbers can be proven mathematically

                  congrats on proving math with math

                  there is scientific proof that gender ideology is not “today i feel”, that sex and gender are distinct. you brought up multiple chromosomal conditions which are part of the scientific proof of such claim, but are too sold on high school biology to entertain complex concepts

                  if you want to bring “science” in this discussion, maybe read it first? it’s ok to be uninformed, you can be wrong on the internet

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          Arguments mate, or you are just wasting our time.

          So far you’ve only voiced your transphobic opinion, that’s not how a good dialog is started.

          Arguing with you is a waste of time.

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          If you’re going to do a binary, X and Y chromosome doesn’t hold up due to the presence of functional XX males from an SRY gene. Its speculated most Y chromosomes started as X chromosomes in animals that have that dichotomy.

          In fact a functional or non functional SRY gene is a better determinant for biological sex.

          The fact is though that testerone and SRY receptors have relatively high variability and trying to socially stress people into a group of traits will create a feedback loop that is opposed to more natural courses of evolution.

          Its likely trans people - of whom there are records of going back to time immemorial - are likely an evolutionary adaptation and serve some evolutionary function to society we may not yet understand

          Since gender is socially constructed (male norms, female norms, male jobs, female jobs) the presence of trans people in society that not only understand both sets of roles but can navigate them is probably an advantage over societies where those roles are less fluid and more strict.

          There’s a case to be made that the more strict gender roles become, the more evolutionary pressure there is to create trans people.

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              So “until time immemorial” means we have records up to the point we don’t any records. The suggestion is its a thing that probably predates the records

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            Since gender is socially constructed (male norms, female norms, male jobs, female jobs) the presence of trans people in society that not only understand both sets of roles but can navigate them is probably an advantage over societies where those roles are less fluid and more strict.

            This might sound strange but I don’t believe in an set of norms in that sense. People can do whatever the fuck they like. Male jobs are male jobs because they require more muscle, female jobs might require more emotional IQ but I don’t see why you should be constrained to that

            I’m a dude, I like doing laundry, and I like playing with kids, don’t like cars and don’t like football. Does that make me a woman?

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              Just because you don’t think there should be social characteristics associated with gender doesn’t mean that there aren’t

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                They are saying its a choice to accept those social characteristics that are tied to gender. If people just let people express themselves how they wanted to regardless of gender, would people even want to transition in the first place?

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    I agree with Dr. Jey McCreight on the science.

    But for determining truth, both sides are wrong here.

    Dunning-Kruger is bad, but so is credentialism and appeal to authority.

    Many people with PhD’s have had Dunning-Kruger. Someone else mentioned Ben Carson being great at neurosurgery, but not politics.

    A PhD doesn’t make you infallible.

    I am saying this as someone who is taking graduate-level courses and will be pursuing my PhD. When I’m correct, it’s not because my future PhD causes reality to magically conform to my opinions - it’s because I rigorously looked at the evidence, logic, and formed my own conclusion that better aligns with reality.

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      Okay but what is good engagement against “follow the science” aside from “I literally DO the science”? Dr. McCreight offered a point and was met with “nuh uh” so at that point it can hardly be called an argument or debate. Do those fallacies honestly matter at that point when one refuses to engage with tangible points of discussion?

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      If one hasn’t fallen victim to Dunning-Kruger, then they have not advanced their knowledge in any meaningful capacity.

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    …and all in between, hormonal and/or physically. “Only two genders” is false

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    I think a lot of these XX XY “only two genders” people aren’t just dunning Kruger, they’re transphobic idiots with an agenda. So even if they had the science and knowledge it wouldn’t matter because they’re pushing their hateful stupid agenda, facts and logic be damned. They don’t care, they just want to rationalize hating us trans people because we make them uncomfy.

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      Tell us what the 3rd gender is please.

      ~95% of all animals in the world, including humans, are gonochoric, have only 2 sexes.

      Turner syndrome and klinfelter syndrome are exatly that, syndromes

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        Gender is not sex. Have you ever, in good faith, talked to a trans person? Have you ever, in good faith, talked to an intersex person?

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          I keep hearing this. If gender is not sex than gender is not real, you can be whatever you want whenever you want, right?

          Still, if a dudes is a dude it’s a he, if a woman is a woman it’s a she.

          The only time I would actually bother ask someone what they like to be called is if they have an intersex condition. That’s it.

          Have you ever, in good faith, talked to a trans person?

          Yes, it was the exactly stereotypical “call me mam” hairy dude. Yeah, that’s never gonna happen. First time in my life I told someone to never talk with me and pretend I don’t exist. I don’t want to interact with these kind of lunatics.

          Have you ever, in good faith, talked to an intersex person?

          No but I would love too, that seems genuinely interesting. I’d have so many questions to ask

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            If gender is not sex than gender is not real, you can be whatever you want whenever you want, right?

            How does “you can chose” make something not real? Also, it doesn’t appear to be a conscious effort to be trans. Do you really think trans people go through all that just for the fun of it?

            Still, if a dudes is a dude it’s a he, if a woman is a woman it’s a she.

            And if a women is not a woman and starts HRT and everything, he’s a dude. You’re exactly right!

            The only time I would actually bother ask someone what they like to be called is if they have an intersex condition. That’s it.

            Can you tell that just by looking at people?

            Yes, it was the exactly stereotypical “call me mam” hairy dude.

            What if it was someone who visually fit in your expectation? Would you treat them with basic respect? Can you tell me the sex of each of those people?

            No but I would love too, that seems genuinely interesting. I’d have so many questions to ask

            Wouldn’t it be interesting to talk to a trans person, too? Understand their perspective? Maybe you already met someone intersex but called them slurs and walked off because you thought they might be trans.

            Your baseless hate for trans people only brings evil into this world. Maybe try giving people a chance. We’re all human.

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              Do you really think trans people go through all that just for the fun of it? I honestly think they have mental problems that won’t be solved by mutilating themselves. It’s not me to make that decision for them and it’s their body but I try to keep myself as far away as possible.

              And if a women is not a woman and starts HRT and everything, he’s a dude.

              What do you mean a woman is not a woman?

              Can you tell that just by looking at people?

              Most likely not, but by interacting with people, yes.

              Can you tell me the sex of each of those people?

              Only from faces? Most likely not. First pic looks like a woman, second like a man, 3rd pic that dude might be a woman, 4th the dude is a woman and 5th I have no damn idea

              called them slurs

              I don’t call people slurs mate, I just avoid interaction.

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      I would honestly be very surprised if any Republican politicians actually care about sex or gender. I think they’re just evil and those are convenient issues to divide the working class. When you don’t have popular policy in real issues, you need to make up some fake ones to get people to still support you.

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        The current moral panic about queer people is definitely manufactured, but the hatred that it’s stirred up is still real. All the religious psychos in power (including Speaker of the House Mike Johnson) really believe that stuff and want to enforce their hierarchy.

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        What really bothers me is that they seem to be winning on the “Trans Sports” issues which sucks, it’s such a blatant distraction that I’d let them just “have that”, but… you know damn well that’s the floor and not the ceiling, and even then their wins are based on lies.

        There are less trans athletes in the world then there are kids with measles in Texas, but the Right would have you believe ever Macho Man Randy Savage type is getting into sports and just blowing records clean away. Hence the push to “Ban transwomen and revoke their records”

        What records? Even Lia Thomas, the closest they’ve gotten to finding an “Evil Cheating Trans!!1111” only came in 4th place…

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      Is there some third gender that trans people can transition to that I’m unaware of? I’m afraid I don’t follow the whole situation all too well sorry. My partner has some transgender family members, but i’ve never i’ve seen anyone that isn’t male to female or female to male. I guess non binary exists, but doesn’t that mean no gender or both?

      I’m afraid I don’t know much on the subject It’s unfortunate.

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        Fear not I, a still rather confused individual, but with slightly more knowledge on the topic shall answer thy call (I seem to suffer from the curse referred to as “being genderfluid” by the scholars of that gender stuff)!

        Somebody who is non-binary is just someone who does not feel like they are entirely male or female. This can mean that they are both, neither or a different gender not connected to either but also not entirely absent or of course any combination of the previous examples.

        In my case (genderfluid) I just flop around on the gender spectrum, mostly not having a gender or feeling a bit feminine but sometimes I do feel male or like some other gender. Though genderfluid just means that the persons gender changes over time, it doesn’t have to be the same genders that I experience.

        Hope this helps :)

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        You’re confusing sex with gender. Both are a spectrum but sex is a biological spectrum of sexual organs in a living creature and gender is a quality, projection and performance of a person that also lands on a spectrum.

        The confusion is because they both use male and female but sex and gender are different things. Gender can change throughout a person’s life. A person’s sex is consistent throughout life and can’t be changed. A person’s gender can’t change their sex. Sex also isn’t as simple as xx is female and xy is male, there’s a whole bunch of things that can’t put a person in one, both, or none of those categories. Gender is even more complicated.

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        The current doctrine is that there are unlimited genders, if you can think of one you can call yourself that, they call them “neopronouns” and aren’t simply relegated to xe/xer but include things like wolfkin and dragonfucker. There’s also plurals which to the best of my understanding feel like there’s multiple people usually with multiple neopronouns inside their head simultaneously.

        I’m not either of these so maybe someone who is can elaborate better, but that’s what I’ve been told and I hope it helps.

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      Exactly. They just don’t care. They’re not necessarily ignorant and participating in good faith.

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    One time a woman told me that my lack of a second X Chromosome meant I would “always be a man”

    So I gaslit her into thinking her husband had klinefelters.

    I hate how Republicans think transphobia is science