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I'll have to explain further it seems, since TERFs keep coming outta the woodwork. "Biological sex" as far as her argument goes is bullshit.

Most "biological sex" arguments are based on what people think is a chromosomal distinction, except most people don't know their genome.

Not only is it possible it's highly likely for people to be intersex without ever knowing, genotypically or or phenotypically. That's truth.

Beyond this, genetics is far more complicated than the "elementary biology" she's citing, and it gets more complicated by the day.

The average person has at least 60 unique mutations at birth from their parents, located on any combination of their chromosomes.

When you oversimplify to "XX vs XY," you're ignoring that even within those combinations there can be any number of chromosomal differences.

Part of the issue comes from explaining biology mechanically. Not everything about biology can be easily explained mechanistically.

When defining biology we often oversimplify since we don't have a full understanding, so dichotomies were created, because they were simple.

As far as simple explanations they worked, but our understanding of biology is descriptive, not prescriptive. We only know what we deduce.

So when people latch onto these ideas as "pure fact" we put faith in human definitions over actual science and biology.

It wasn't until the 50s that Franklin figured out the double helix, so to use definitions of sex and gender that go back centuries is silly.

We know more than we did then. That's the point of research. And tomorrow we will know more and our understanding will get more complicated.

they used to put it at 1 in 1000 but now because of this they're estimating it to be more like 1 in 100 lmao. we outchere

Also can we just give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she forgot instead of accusing her of intersection gemocide?

I'd give her more benefit of the doubt if she wasn't so intent on defending her misinformation and dating a fascist.

who she dating?