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All the news on his speech seems to be about HS2 but I think that this is important too.

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[–] Gabu@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If trans people are only changing gender, and gender is a strictly social phenomenon we can’t really explain this

Yes we can... It's the exact same as consuming a drug which changes how your body works. Arguing otherwise is akin to saying people who drink coffee have a different sex than those who don't.

[–] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

My point is that binary sex is an incomplete metric that doesn't accurately describe the biology of trans people. My wording was a bit clunky there, but if the meaningful traits that sex describes are mediated through hormonal profiles, and hormonal profiles do not necessarily match the 46th chromosome, there's a strong argument to be made that what we're really describing when we're talking about sex in humans is not the value of a chromosome, but rather the pattern of sexual differentiation throughout the body, and the fact of the matter is that that is not a strict binary. Binary sex based on chromosomes is not capable of meaningfully distinguishing between a cis woman and a trans man despite there being many significant biological differences between them that are produce in the exact same way as they are between cis women and men.