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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gender is not a social construct. It's established at the moment of conception. I don't care who you love but don't insist that male is female or vice versa.
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Not even sex is established at the moment of conception, for all human beings. Typically it is, but not universally.

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001669.htm
https://repeatingislands.com/2015/09/19/the-astonishing-village-where-little-girls-turn-into-boys-aged-12/

And then there are the other organisms:

https://www.nature.com/articles/296850a0
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK9989/
http://news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs/
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Yeah. Because how the sex of alligators is determined is completely relevant to this discussion. As are genetic anomalies.  :roll: [/quote]

Human beings are relevant to the discussion, no? Sex is established at the moment of conception for human beings, [i]except for when it isn't[/i].[/quote]

You ignored PP's sentence 'as are genetic anomolies.' Because that is what is happening if sex can't be determined at birth.[/quote]

So these human beings don't count as human beings? I think that they do.[/quote]

Of course they do. All people with disabilities and medical conditions are considered people worthy of equal respect. That doesn't mean their condition says anything other than that they have a genetic anomaly. If you have an anomaly in your heart it doesn't speak to a larger question about whether there is a 'right' kind of heart. There is a right kind of heart that functions in an ideal way for human thriving and survival. The same is true for gender/sex. It doesn't mean there is ANYTHING wrong with people with heart defects or gender dysphoria. [/quote]

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