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You got me on chimps, I should have googled first, switch out chimps for lemurs. But the point stands. You are making language too complicated. Changing language so it needs to be all inclusive all the time is cumbersome, difficult to understand and not a realistic goal. [/quote]

It's not about being inclusive. It's about being accurate. This is especially important when we're talking about science. The original claim was that gender is established at conception. This is factually incorrect. There are plenty of instances where sex (let alone gender) is NOT established at conception.[/quote]

In humans, those are anomalies. And just like if you have a heart condition at birth and then go on to fix it you were still born with a heart, if you were born at birth XY or XX you were born male or female regardless of how long it took to confirm based on a birth defect. And if you have an extra chromosome it is the same thing, an anomoly that is not relevant to anyone other than the small subset of people effected by it. [/quote]

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