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You managed to state “every part of this is wrong” without refuting anything I wrote, and in many cases confirming what I wrote with your citations. 1. “Sex is
by empthought 6y ago
You managed to state “every part of this is wrong” without refuting anything I wrote, and in many cases confirming what I wrote with your citations.
1. “Sex is about reproduction”
WHO page: “ When a Y chromosome is present, early embryonic testes develop around the 10th week of pregnancy. In the absence of both a Y chromosome and the influence of a testis-determining factor (TDF), ovaries develop.”
These are reproductive organs.
Each detailed description of chromosomal variations references “sterility,” “infertility,” or “fertile.”
2. “Gender is about sex.”
> You've then said that gender is tied to sex, but that's only true in some countries at this point in history, and it mostly stems from Christian colonialists imposing their view (often using violence to do so) across the world.
This is an absurd claim and appears to imply that pre-colonization, people could not figure out which individuals would bear children and which would sire them based on their physical characteristics, and sort them accordingly. Hammurabi’s code had bride prices, Aztec women were not permitted be soldiers, Chinese women were taught the three followings 2500 years ago. Your statement is simply profoundly absurd. All societies — even the ones listed in your citations — especially the ones listed in your citations — have been capable of distinguishing sex, and setting up different rules of behavior that depend on sex. That is gender.
3. “You've said that identity is irrelevant to reproductive role. That's wrong, which is why there are trans-fathers who give birth.”
This is again deliberate confusion. No matter what pronoun or title you afford this trans man, his reproductive role was to bear a child and not to sire one. Only female mammals produce eggs and only female mammals bear young.