(May 29, 2024 at 9:13 am)Ferrocyanide Wrote: It sounds like you are saying that gender is based on an individual claiming to be male or female with no reason.
I'm not sure that "no reason" is correct. Probably there is a reason. But the reason is NOT anatomical.
If a person who has all the anatomical characteristics which we used to associate with maleness (chromosomes, genitalia, hormonal balances) identifies as a female, then the current consensus among right-thinking people is that she is in fact a woman.
If someone objected and said, "I don't care how you 'identify,' you have a dick and a beard and XY chromosomes, therefore you're a man, like it or not," this person would be labelled a transphobe.
Quote:In that case, the words male and female lose meaning.
They appear to have lost the meaning they used to have. But I'm told that people who hold to the old meanings, and deny that trans women are women, are no longer on the right side of history.
