siland

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by siland 5y ago
Nitpicking the diagnostic criteria doesn't refute my main point, which was that desires and beliefs are not the same thing as actually being. When you get down to the biological reality of it, a male with gender dysphoria, or who claim
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by siland 5y ago
If that's what it takes for you to save face after not adequately explaining your points, then sure, why not.
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by siland 5y ago
No, I didn't feel a jolt of anything. Your comment was unclear to me though - exactly what parts of my comment were you referring to with your claim of "more hypotheses stated as results", and why? Please be specific.
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by siland 5y ago
I'm not denying that gender dysphoria is a diagnosable condition. Indeed, I referred to its existence twice in my earlier comment. It's clearly a disorder that affects some people, even if the aetiology is currently unknown. But c
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by siland 5y ago
It's because the reproductive strategy of humans (and many other animals) involves the mating of two sexes, with each sex providing a distinct type of gamete: eggs from females, and sperm from males. There's no third type of gamet
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by siland 5y ago
> This comment is the equivalent to saying that people with mental health issues don't matter and don't count because they are abnormalities. No it's not. They're just pointing out that these are unusual chromosomal c
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by siland 5y ago
> So where somebody produced both male and female gametes what sex re they? Both simultaneously? There are no recorded cases of this actually happening, and if it did in the future I expect an accurate description of their sex would depe
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by siland 5y ago
I expect this would be in the context of someone from the "illiberal left" (a perhaps biased term, but the one used in the article) having already asserted the opppsite to one or more of these statements, and being corrected for i
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by siland 5y ago
> The amount of biological sexes aren’t even close to two. There’s XXY… XYY… XXX… These are not sexes, these are chromosomal configurations. Sex refers to the structure and purpose of the reproductive system, and ultimately the type of