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Dunning-Kruger (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I think you may have misread. The PHD isn't saying that XY becomes XX, they are saying, genetically, a person carrying XY can be a cis woman. Biologically, XY doesn't determine the sex.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I honestly don't understand. What does define the sex biologically? The genitalia, then? I always understood positions like William's like "XY is the biologically male sex by definition, if the human develops female genitalia and feels like a woman they were biologically speaking still intended to be a man." I don't understand what else there could be on an elemental level to biologically determine the sex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There's no one thing that defines sex, that's what makes it so complicated. What is often thought of as "biological sex" are two clustered sets of checkboxes (e.g chromosomes, genitalia, secondary sex characteristics, primary sex hormone), but people often have a mixture from both lists. Here's an interesting nature article on it https://www.nature.com/articles/518288a

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Very interesting, thanks!

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