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Have you considered the effects of androgen insensitivity syndrome? Chromosomes don't always neatly map to physical traits.
by crooked-v 5y ago
Have you considered the effects of androgen insensitivity syndrome? Chromosomes don't always neatly map to physical traits.
- beerandt 5y agoHave you considered that forcing the abnormal to be included with the normal renders both terms meaningless?
- crooked-v 5y agoThis categorization scheme would specifically include the 'abnormal' and the 'normal' together based entirely on chromosomes.
- cudgy 5y agoNo matter what classification is used, there will be variations. However, using a deterministic criteria reduces incentive to game the system. More importantly, it reduces (for example) the pressure on participants to change their sexual identity to improve their competition level in a sport or at the least give the impression that the change was made for competitive reasons.
- beerandt 5y agoMy point is that if something is "different" , forcing others to label that thing as "not-different" isn't a productive battle. Others will just now need a new way to describe it, because to them, the original label is now meaningless in it's classic sense, to them. For example we've gone from: (some male terms I apparently can't use anymore) to transwoman to ciswoman to biological woman. And in every case the transwomen demands to be included in the "new" category, and everyone else has to come up with another term to differentiate.
- kazinator 5y agoThe point isn't to line up with physical traits, but to prevent issues such as some XY beefcake who identified as a man for 35 years using gender politics to impose perself into the XX category. This doesn't replace trait-based subcategorization. E.g. the category XX wrestling still has weight classes.