I've spent a lot of this week thinking and arguing about the science of transgender existence (thanks to @Laelaps piece arguing that we shouldn't... and the fact that I'm Slate's comment moderator).
So, why not a thread about how an alien might approach human sex differences?
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This has informed where I come down on the question of "What AM sex/gender?"
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If I'm culturally male and biologically at least somewhat male, I'm male enough for my purposes. There's no "true" gender that overrides that, either in my deep inner feelings or in idealized culturally ideosyncratic biology texts for children.
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My scientific test to determine what another person's gender is consists of asking them. It's not error proof- nothing is in science. Someone could always lie to me, for some reason. But it's far more accurate than any other test I have access to, or even any I could imagine.
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Other people have access to more accurate information about their own sex/gender identities than I do, and rarely lie about them. Therefore, the only evidence I need to determine someone else's gender, with a very high rate of accuracy, is their self identification.
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(you may have thought I was going in a trans medicalist direction, but then I zagggged on you)
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