That Trans Thread

[Rev. Rye]

Does anyone have any opinion about the supreme court nominee declining to define the word woman because she's not a biologist?

She shouldn’t even have been asked the question.

Boru

If it was a year ago, they'd probably be asking about Dr. Seuss and whether it's an injustice that a handful of his books (ones that are B-tier Seuss at best) are going out of print.

Also worth noting, even a biologist probably couldn't do the question justice.

Even the question of "what is a female" is actually shockingly complicated. Rebecca Jordan-Young (gender studies professor AND biologist who’s written books about testosterone) pointed out that "There are at least six different biological markers of “sex” in the body: genitals, chromosomes, gonads, internal reproductive structures, hormone ratios and secondary sex characteristics. None of the six is strictly dichotomous, and the different markers don’t always align." And that's just the biological factors of sex. Gender being a social construct that's related, but not necessarily identical, to biological sex makes the question of "what is a woman" even hairier.

Granted, in humans, they're usually in enough accord that it's not too hard to identify one, but usually doesn't mean always.