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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^I will keep it simple for now. Try the Radiolab podcast

1 episode discusses the Olympic athlete who has a ton of testosterone and tests as a man, but biologically is a woman. Should she be banned from competing as a woman?

our understanding of chromosomes is also changing. What the previous posts are doing is relying on basic understandings of biology instead of emerging research.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/gonads-xy

and if you want to read how the scene is Shifting here a Scientific American. Try to be open-minded.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-new-science-of-sex-and-gender/
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You want me to listen to radiolab because, what, you can't present your argument? I started listening, but there's a lot of nonsense at the beginning and I'm not a fan of listening to what sounds like a poorly produced podcast (which is strange, since radiolab is typically of decently high quality). Summarize.

Explain what you mean "biologically is a woman." If the olympic athlete you're talking about has a Y chromosome, that athlete is biologically a male.
I have sympathy for people who have ambiguous genitalia, and and are raised as women even though they're male. That's a really challenging situation and it's definitely one we should talk about. These people are not, however, transgender, and their particular challenges don't demonstrate any changing of humans being biologically male or biologically female, any more than babies born without two legs change our understanding of humans being bipedal. Transgender people need to stop co-opting the struggles of people who are born with genetic anomalies, those create challenges of their own.

For your second link, which you also couldn't be bothered to summarize (did you not understand it?).
Of course we've found accidents of birth. We find bits of bodies in humans all the time, I assume from incompletely absorbed twins, or other oddities. None of this changes what it is to be human. And there have been oh so many studies about sex differences in the brains of men and women, and we've learned there is no pink brain and there is no blue brain. Women aren't born to find math hard. Men aren't born to be violent thugs. That's society and socialization. Just like the push back from people saying no, Asians aren't unfixably smarter than caucasians of European ancestry, socialization plays a huge role and holding them up as the standard for smarts is just as much of a problem as it is to say those poor dumb white folks just need to stop trying.[/quote]

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