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It is a real difference. > Thus, this "girl" wasn't a girl at all. Biologically and scientifically speaking, he was a boy with an undeveloped penis. Actually,
by _jal 9y ago
It is a real difference.
> Thus, this "girl" wasn't a girl at all. Biologically and scientifically speaking, he was a boy with an undeveloped penis.
Actually, scientifically speaking, a different developmental path than the one to which you are accustomed happened. There are real differences that conflict with a desire held by some that people fit in neat categories that do not exist as the clean, platonic ideal they want it to be.
I think "we" should accept the reality that gender is not binary rather than using the political process to harass people who are living proof of that fact.
- judah 9y ago>> "Actually, scientifically speaking, a different developmental path than the one to which you are accustomed happened." His delayed sexual development doesn't change the scientific reality that he had, and still has, male hormones and male chromosomes. Biologically, he is a male.
- _jal 9y ago> Biologically, he is a male. So is this woman: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MedicalMysteries/story?id=5465752&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MedicalMysteries/story?id=54657...
- judah 9y agoAs your article states, that woman has a condition called Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, or AIS, producing a person with a vagina but with XY chromosomes. That isn't normal & healthy development, any more than blindness is normal & healthy. Rather, AIS is a medical condition, a syndrome that causes suffering.
- _jal 9y agoI think you're making my point for me. You appear to be more interested in categorization and distinguishing what is and what isn't normal and healthy than simply acknowledging that gender is not binary, whatever medical category might be applicable to a particular person. People exist who do not fit into either-or gender boxes. It is just reality.