We have been over this - there are two reproductive roles. That is what we are recognising. I am slowly and reluctantly coming to the unfortunate conclusion that you may only have the brains of a bag of gravel.
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You keep conflating sex at the level of the human species and sex at the level of the individual. Yes, there are two human sexes. But your claim was that every individual human can be assigned to one of them on a discrete biological basis. That is what you were asked to substantiate.
sep 2, 2025, 5:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I have never claimed everyone *must* be classified as male or female. That is an open question. My position is that it is likely everyone can be classified as male or female. My challenge to you was to show a person who was not male or female.
sep 2, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Right, but that question only makes sense under the premise that you are (or were? Are no longer?) arguing for. My position is that people are what they are. Yes, most people more or less align with a consensus definition that works in a social or medical context as needed. I have no need /
sep 2, 2025, 5:49 pm • 0 0 • view
to go beyond that in search of some essential state of being. So if someone identifies themselves to me as intersex, under one of any number of clinical diagnoses, then that’s just… what they are. You may feel some need to assess that each person is more proximate to one pole or the other. I don’t.
sep 2, 2025, 5:49 pm • 0 0 • view
It feels to me you want to play no critical thinking or safeguarding to what people say they are. You just accept any old nonsense that someone might say about themselves. That makes you a danger.
sep 2, 2025, 5:53 pm • 1 0 • view
A million biologists point at a person and say “you are male,” and the person says “no, I’m not.” What says that they’re wrong and the biologists are right? If it’s “because your characteristics correlate more strongly with people who make small gametes,” that’s fine. It’s just not what you claimed.
sep 2, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
What says they are wrong is if they are actually male and have a male phenotype. Some men pretend to be female for example as this gets them off. We do nto have to believe what these men say. Do we? If you dad said he was female you would know he was a liar.
sep 2, 2025, 5:29 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t understand how you can have argued online with and about trans people for months and still be unclear on the difference between sex and gender. Nobody claims that their body is not what it is. That’s not what any of this means.
sep 2, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
I have not mentioned gender. I have no idea what you mean by it. It is used in so many different ways as to be essentially useless in any serious discussion. 1. Can you say what a gender actual is? 2. Can you give an example of a gender? 3. Can you define yoru chosen example gender?
sep 2, 2025, 5:54 pm • 1 0 • view
My point is that a trans woman is not “pretending to be female.” They understand better than any of us the reality of the body they inhabit. You’re not being asked to believe or disbelieve anything about it. (On the contrary, they generally would rather you didn’t think about it at all.)
sep 2, 2025, 6:00 pm • 0 0 • view
They are trying to fool people they are not male and they are female. All the "gender" talk is a smokescreen for weak minds. 1. Can you say what a gender actual is? 2. Can you give an example of a gender? 3. Can you define yoru chosen example gender?
sep 2, 2025, 6:06 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re only being “fooled” if the way that you interact with people in a social context is dependent in some way on what you imagine their reproductive-role-based-on-gamete-production is. Why do you need to know their biology if all that’s being asked of you is a polite “sir” or “ma’am?”
sep 2, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Because these abusive men want access to women's protected spaces , sports and rights. They do it to get off.
sep 2, 2025, 6:18 pm • 1 0 • view
You have all this keen interest in biology, but zero understanding or curiosity about who trans people actually are or what they want from the rest of us. Just warmed-over 1950s propaganda about homosexual predators recycled for a new target. That’s sad in its way.
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