RE: Question for the heterosexual men of AF
March 22, 2018 at 9:59 pm
(This post was last modified: March 22, 2018 at 10:13 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(March 21, 2018 at 10:44 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(March 21, 2018 at 10:42 pm)c172 Wrote: OK, I got thrown off by "biologically male". To me, that term speaks to the present situation, not te former situation.
Now that we're clear, I voted "no".
Yep! "Biologically male" means they were born male and have male DNA, though they may identify as female.
“Biological” insinuates scientific truth. But science doesn’t say a organism that is phenotypically female but has sex chromosomes commonly associated with the male is therefore male. In fact one could make a strong case that sex is phenotypical trait, and sex chromosome merely show a high, but not perfect, correlation to sex in a specie
Also, the exact same chromosome trait that highly correlated to phenotypical male amongst humans, a X-Y chromosome pair, happen to highly correlated to females amongst many reasonably close related animals. That suggest a particular style of sexual chromosome isn’t biologically most fundamentally determinative of sex amongst mammals. Instead sex is defined by the style of the reproductive organ.
So a person with male sex chromosome but female genitalia is not “biologically” male. That person is chromosomally like male, but biologically female.
You might argue the artificially reconstructed genitalia of a transsexual individual is cosmetic and not of the same type of tissue as in a functional genitalia of that sex. I think that is a fair point. But that does not make the person “biologically” of the original sex.