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I have no problem with her calling herself a woman, for all intents and purposes she is a woman. Except for the scientific labeling of who she is, which is important to separate as she was born with a condition that resulted in (terrible since it was not consented to) treatment. I do not know enough about androgen insensitivity to know what all the ramifications are but I do know that an anomalous genetic condition doesn't necessitate changing the way we speak about the human species. It requires specificity in talking about an individual that falls outside the normal parameters of the human condition.[/quote]

So you would call Hanne Gaby Odiele a woman*? Where the asterisk stands for what? Not a true women, but ok, I won't argue?

This is what happens when you try to fit everybody into two neat boxes. Biology is not that neat. So this system will only work if you hand-wave away everybody who doesn't fit into the two boxes. Everybody is either an XX woman or an XY man, except for people who aren't, but they don't count, because they're anomalies, because everybody is either an XX woman or an XY man.[/quote]

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