No they do not. One is an evolved reproductive strategy. The other is an old-fashioned term for medical conditions. Stop being so dishonest and accept you are wrong.
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Both can be true. I can accept your two definitions, but there’s obviously some overlap between the two. In both cases, the result is some degree of expression of genes that produce two differentiated of sexual characteristics.
aug 31, 2025, 3:03 pm • 5 0 • view
Context is everything. If we’re arguing about definitions to go into a 1st year biology textbook, then fine. “Sex is binary” is broadly correct. If we’re setting policy on who’s using what bathroom, then it’s about X and Y and a raft of other genes, environmental factors, etc.
aug 31, 2025, 3:11 pm • 5 0 • view
What are you in about in the last part of your sentence? Why are genes the important thing for bathrooms?
aug 31, 2025, 4:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe I mistook your view for someone else’s in the thread. I assumed you were using definitions of sex also extended to gender. For example, do you object to people using whatever bathroom facility they wish based on their gender identity?
aug 31, 2025, 5:53 pm • 5 0 • view
We have separate spaces for when as a protection for their dignity and safety. There is zero reason to do this on the basis of “gender identity”.
aug 31, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Zero reason? What do you think will happen when, per your policy, a burly trans man tries to use the women’s bathroom?
aug 31, 2025, 8:59 pm • 4 0 • view
If we all agree that spaces are segregated on the basis of sex then nothing. Or if this "burly" women has any empathy and actually passesshe might use a third space. Men need to stay out of women's spaces though.
sep 1, 2025, 8:08 am • 0 0 • view
What exactly is the harm in that trans man using the men’s facilities like any other?
sep 1, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, unfortunately, plenty of men aren't stopped by a sign on the door that segregates by gender. Predators aren't stopped by laws or norms. But trans women aren't men so there shouldn't be any issues there.
sep 1, 2025, 1:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Statistically, if we’re going to segregate bathrooms for reasons of safety, we need to first make adult men use a designated bathroom separate from young boys.
sep 1, 2025, 1:37 pm • 4 0 • view
Oof. But you're not wrong.
sep 1, 2025, 1:38 pm • 2 0 • view
The inability to process that is a feature, not a bug
sep 1, 2025, 2:03 am • 1 0 • view
I’d also agree we do need separate spaces in bathrooms preserve dignity and safety. We call those spaces “stalls”.
aug 31, 2025, 9:01 pm • 2 0 • view
I was at a Swedish airport that just generic toilet facilities. It was a little disconcerting washing my hands next to both men and women. I kept feeling I’d wandered into the wrong place. Every Vikings game I’ve been to involved women queuing up for the stalls in the men’s toilets too.
aug 31, 2025, 9:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Really? Why do you say there's no basis for providing separate spaces on the basis of gender identity? We already do.
aug 31, 2025, 8:56 pm • 6 0 • view
The only people who benefit from this are autogynephiles. That is not a legitimate basis for providing segregated spaces.
sep 1, 2025, 8:06 am • 0 0 • view
I see quite a bit of benefit for protecting spaces on the benefit of gender identity. Is that why you didn't answer my question? And why are you still engaging in bad faith when you still haven't provided those stats?
sep 1, 2025, 11:34 am • 2 0 • view
How, exactly, does anyone benefit from a shared space with fully enclosed bathroom stalls that lock?
sep 1, 2025, 12:58 pm • 1 0 • view
So no more men's and women's bathrooms? Everyone shares a single space, or are you proposing more unisex and family lavatories? It's been days, and you haven't grown tired of being wrong. I can't decide if that's impressive or stupid.
sep 1, 2025, 11:57 am • 2 0 • view
The cognitive dissonance in saying we don’t need segregated spaces while telling trans people they should go to a “third space” is breathtaking. Days crusading for “two binary sexes,” and then you shake off the real-world complications of your position like it’s nothing. bsky.app/profile/quac...
sep 1, 2025, 12:44 pm • 2 0 • view
As I repeat, the conflicting directives meant to be ruthlessly enforced by people enabled with pretty wide discretion aren't a bug, it's a feature. The primary goal of this mess is to create a system flat-out impossible to navigate for trans people to push them out of society.
sep 2, 2025, 8:10 am • 1 0 • view
The secondary goals of this mess are to make the system hazardous for gender non-conforming people and to create systemic burden for most people, then blame trans people for the friction in order to push non-hateful people to embrace genocidal transphobia as a way to escape bureaucratic bullshit.
sep 2, 2025, 8:10 am • 2 0 • view
I really want to know what these TERFs are doing in bathrooms where they think trans people are somehow a threat to vulnerable people in a state of partial nudity. Are the TERFs running around in the common spaces undressed or something? Because the partial undress is usually in a locked stall.
sep 1, 2025, 1:03 pm • 4 0 • view
Do you happen to remember the "menstrual blood is a biohazard" discourse in the other place? That one had a very similar problem.
sep 1, 2025, 1:04 pm • 2 0 • view
“Prisons” is also my favorite for its naked disingenuousness. No one who is actually concerned (or even passingly familiar) with health and safety in the prison system has “trans invaders” anywhere in their top thousand priorities.
sep 1, 2025, 1:12 pm • 4 0 • view
An animal having both male and female reproductive organs doesn't overlap with a person who has both male and female sexual characteristics? I... wow.
aug 31, 2025, 2:56 pm • 4 0 • view
Pot calling the kettle black here.
aug 31, 2025, 2:54 pm • 4 0 • view
He's almost an impressively bad-faith arguer here. He would fit in with the current administration.
aug 31, 2025, 4:14 pm • 5 0 • view
Can you point to any point I have made that can be characterised as bad faith? Or any form of argument I have used that is bad faith?
aug 31, 2025, 4:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Claiming that the majority of cases of gynecomastia are voluntary and failing to provide evidence or rescind the claim when challenged.
aug 31, 2025, 4:52 pm • 4 0 • view
I mean there's the part that claims you understand the paper, and then it turns out you haven't actually read the full thing. You present snippets of the paper that, in many cases, run counter to the argument you actually making. When called on it you tell us to ignore our eyes and just believe you.
aug 31, 2025, 5:18 pm • 4 0 • view
Thinking about it, your comments on LLMs might be the most accurate thing you've said so far. Much like the LLM, you search for what sounds like the closest thing to an answer to the question and give it, while fundamentally not understanding what you're actually talking about.
aug 31, 2025, 5:58 pm • 4 0 • view
Or caring about the subject at all.
sep 1, 2025, 2:00 am • 2 0 • view
See, that's where they differ. LLM don't care, it's a machine. He obviously cares a great deal about the topic; he's just either too lazy to actually read what he's citing, or too disingenuous to either admit he's wrong or find a different source. Or, maybe both.
sep 1, 2025, 2:10 am • 1 0 • view