This thread is essential reading for everyone but I think @MForstater would find it especially useful.https://twitter.com/chasestrangio/status/1105859324285468675 …
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You aren’t engaging with this substantively. How do you define biology? If my testosterone levels are as high as someone born with a penis how would you classify me? What if I had xy chromosomes but was assigned female at birth? What about trans men who decide to become pregnant?
Human beings develop along two different pathways in utero. Male & Female. Usually XX chromosomes result in a female baby (not always, in rare cases the SRY gene which is normally found on the Y chromosome gets translocated to an X. (1/)
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1 out of 100 babies are intersex. That is not rare, that’s millions and millions of people.
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Most so called "intersex" conditions, disorders of sexual development are specific conditions effecting either male or females. For example MRKH effects females, born without a vagina. women not a third sex. Babies born with ambiguous sex are much rarer https://www.parliament.scot/S5_European/Inquiries/CensusBill_DSDFamilies_CTEEAS518CB33.pdf …
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In the vast majority of cases a baby's sex is obvious to all at birth. In very few cases it needs further investigating, in a tiny proportion with very rare conditions it is truly ambiguous (2/)
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Okay, so your belief is that sex is based solely on chromosomes, not hormones or even how you think a body looks.
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