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Do you make a habit of collecting eggs and/or sperm from the people you meet for the purpose of determining their biological sex? How many of your friends’ and

Do you make a habit of collecting eggs and/or sperm from the people you meet for the purpose of determining their biological sex? How many of your friends’ and acquaintances’ gametes have you confirmed? If this person[1] tells you that they are a man, what level of scrutiny should they be subject to in order to confirm this to your satisfaction? If you do not intend to reproduce with them, to what end is it important that you establish which type of gamete they produce? If a future surgery allows a woman to produce sperm, is this what will qualify them as a man from your perspective? Where do hermaphrodites fit into this picture? What about people that produce neither sperm nor ova? [1]: https://trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/transgender-man-before-and-after-jamie-wilson-6.jpg https://trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/transgen...

slaw 4y ago
Yes, if future surgery allows a women to change their chromosome and produce sperm then they will be a man.
- stouset 4y ago
  Do you consider a tomato to be a vegetable or a fruit? Biologically, a tomato is a fruit. This is inarguable fact. If you are a biologist breeding new strains, you will conceptualize a tomato as a fruit. And yet culinarily a tomato is a vegetable. Put a tomato in a fruit salad and people are going to look at you funny. Note that a biologist who eats food can and will consider a tomato both a fruit and a vegetable depending on the context. If you can understand this, you can understand that someone’s biological sex—primarily relevant to reproduction and healthcare—can differ from their psychological sex (i.e., their gender), which is more relevant to social contexts. Both can be true simultaneously, but unless you’re a doctor caring for a trans person or intending to perform reproductive acts with them, someone’s psychological sex is almost certainly more relevant to your relationship with them than which gamete they happen excrete.
  - slaw 4y ago
    Tomato is a fruit, always was. Sex is way more important in social context. If I am looking for sexual relationship I am interested only in females. For other social contexts I don't really care whether someone is male or female or thinks they are someone else. Gender is irrelevant.
    - stouset 4y ago
      > Tomato is a fruit, always was. Are you genuinely incapable of understanding the concept of context? > Sex is way more important in social context. I sincerely hope that the vast majority of your social relationships are not based upon the promise of reproducing with them.

slaw 4y ago

Yes, if future surgery allows a women to change their chromosome and produce sperm then they will be a man.

stouset 4y ago
Do you consider a tomato to be a vegetable or a fruit? Biologically, a tomato is a fruit. This is inarguable fact. If you are a biologist breeding new strains, you will conceptualize a tomato as a fruit. And yet culinarily a tomato is a vegetable. Put a tomato in a fruit salad and people are going to look at you funny. Note that a biologist who eats food can and will consider a tomato both a fruit and a vegetable depending on the context. If you can understand this, you can understand that someone’s biological sex—primarily relevant to reproduction and healthcare—can differ from their psychological sex (i.e., their gender), which is more relevant to social contexts. Both can be true simultaneously, but unless you’re a doctor caring for a trans person or intending to perform reproductive acts with them, someone’s psychological sex is almost certainly more relevant to your relationship with them than which gamete they happen excrete.
- slaw 4y ago
  Tomato is a fruit, always was. Sex is way more important in social context. If I am looking for sexual relationship I am interested only in females. For other social contexts I don't really care whether someone is male or female or thinks they are someone else. Gender is irrelevant.
  - stouset 4y ago
    > Tomato is a fruit, always was. Are you genuinely incapable of understanding the concept of context? > Sex is way more important in social context. I sincerely hope that the vast majority of your social relationships are not based upon the promise of reproducing with them.