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quackometer.bsky.social @quackometer.bsky.social

The point was both questioned undermined your premise that we cannot know objectively with high accuracy who is male and who is female. How we do this is a different question of course. But once you have to admit we can tell your ideology is busted.

sep 2, 2025, 12:43 pm • 4 1

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Michael Engard @engard.me

I would say it shows the opposite: if you can't actually define your criteria, even on the "easy" cases where everyone (including the subject) basically agrees, then you're hopeless when it comes to the hard cases.

sep 2, 2025, 12:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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quackometer.bsky.social @quackometer.bsky.social

There are two facts that come out of my questions 1) We can say with very high accuracy who is male and who is female just by looking at them. Our "guess" almost always tallies with what they report. 2) Our recognition of sex can result in hard objective end-points to show we are correct: pregnancy

sep 2, 2025, 12:53 pm • 4 1 • view
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quackometer.bsky.social @quackometer.bsky.social

These are facts you will struggle to explain away with your batshit gender ideology.

sep 2, 2025, 12:53 pm • 3 1 • view
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Michael Engard @engard.me

Neither of those facts has anything to do with the question you are (still) failing to answer.

sep 2, 2025, 12:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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quackometer.bsky.social @quackometer.bsky.social

Why does it matter how we know when it is obvious we can? We pick up myriads of cues about people's sex - any combination of which can be a give away. It is why people with trans identities are rarely successful in fooling people about their sex. It is a hard thing to do.

sep 2, 2025, 1:00 pm • 5 1 • view
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Marianne (Scotland) @mariannemc.bsky.social

I think he may have read the study I posted and ran away!

sep 2, 2025, 1:18 pm • 3 0 • view
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Michael Engard @engard.me

Well, at least two reasons. First, because it’s a claim you made but can’t defend, and more than anything it’s been entertaining watching you chase your tail about it. But more importantly, it matters because it leaves you with no clear basis to say a person is not the sex they claim to be.

sep 2, 2025, 1:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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Michael Engard @engard.me

You can say it’s basic biology, but you can’t define that biology. You can say 96% of people will validate your intuition, but that other 4% matters. You’re trying to fight for a binary reality. Either there are no exceptions, or not. And “not” is a big deal for you.

sep 2, 2025, 1:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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quackometer.bsky.social @quackometer.bsky.social

What utter nonsense on stilts. The central fact you wish to deny is that humans are a sexually reproducing species with two sexes: male and female. Those sex roles are distinct, objective and observable which is why your mum and dad were not surprised which one of them got pregnant.

sep 2, 2025, 1:56 pm • 2 0 • view
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quackometer.bsky.social @quackometer.bsky.social

We have distinct sex organs for each role. But as moderately dimorphic mammals we do nto have to observe directly those sex organs as we can take in the myriad of clues from our body shapes, gait, voice, hair, facial structure and so on. And rcognise sex in adults in the high 90's%.

sep 2, 2025, 1:56 pm • 2 0 • view
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quackometer.bsky.social @quackometer.bsky.social

The reasons we get a few wrong can be due to several factors: Secondary sex characteristics do overlap - not much, but enough to introduce a percentage point of errors or so. That does not mean such people are not male or female, but atypical in body characteristics.

sep 2, 2025, 1:56 pm • 2 0 • view
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Michael Engard @engard.me

It means that, even on your own terms, you do not know what a man or a woman “is.” You think 96% is good enough to effectively deprecate millions human beings as equal members of society. Which tells me that safety and dignity aren’t really what your beliefs are grounded in.

sep 2, 2025, 1:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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Marianne (Scotland) @mariannemc.bsky.social

What question is he failing to answer?

sep 2, 2025, 1:02 pm • 2 0 • view
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Only human from Canada @censored-by.bsky.social

Fun facts: All people are born of a biological woman from an ovum (large gamete) and a man from a spermatozoid (small gamete). Sex is binary (anomalies occur within the binary system). Genders are countless, limited only by human imagination.

sep 2, 2025, 1:16 pm • 3 0 • view
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Marianne (Scotland) @mariannemc.bsky.social

Did you look at the study I posted?

sep 2, 2025, 12:52 pm • 1 0 • view
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quackometer.bsky.social @quackometer.bsky.social

YEs. We went over a number of papers that show how we are very good at recognising sex **just from facial features** and without any other cues. They wriggled and squirmed at thee professional level over this.

sep 2, 2025, 12:57 pm • 1 0 • view
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Marianne (Scotland) @mariannemc.bsky.social

My post was aimed at Michael. It clearly answers his questions. However, like most TRA’s they can’t accept reality.

sep 2, 2025, 1:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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Michael Engard @engard.me

Yes.

sep 2, 2025, 12:57 pm • 0 0 • view