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EnergyAmylast Tuesday at 2:15 PM1 replyview on HN

You can't legislate reality away. If you're tracking biological sex, then it doesn't matter what a court decides. If you're tracking legal fictions then you might.

I look forward to your citation disputing the truth of what he lays out in that paper. In the meantime, feel free to peruse the list here of people affirming the same stance:

https://projectnettie.wordpress.com/

Or someone else:

https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/33/2/in-humans-sex-is...

You should ask the people you run with why no human is born with a body not organized around the production of gametes. You'll notice that when you read about conditions like anorchia or ovarian agenesis, the sex of the person with that condition is not a mystery, it's literally in the name.

Biology is messy indeed, and that's why finding such a universal definition was so useful.


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defrostlast Wednesday at 11:33 PM

> You can't legislate reality away

So why are you trying to?

> I look forward to your citation disputing the truth of what he lays out in that paper.

Just look to his reputation in the field .. it's up there with Jo Nova on climate physics .. laughable.

> You should ask the people you run with why no human is born with a body not organized around the production of gametes.

So you're implicitly admitting that humans are born without gamates then? You've certainly dodged that question multiple times in your comment history.

You're also not admitting to yourself the existence of those humans born with conflicting organisation re: sexual reproduction - when the physical form, the chromosones, the gamates, et al don't align.

From an empirical PoV for people in field work here it's simply silly to claim that only two cases cover all variations - it's a mystery why any one would work so hard to force it.

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