/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11316314
They make composition possible.

I mean, the basic point he's making is fundamentally correct; there's all sorts of weird (physiological) intersex conditions known to medicine, from complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (in which someone who's 46XY develops as female due to their body not responding to male hormones) to 5α-reductase deficiency (in which 46XY children are born phenotypically female and turn mostly male at puberty) to the rare and exotic chimeric hermaphroditism, in which a male embryo and a female embryo combine in early development to produce a single individual with features of both.
>http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199801153380305
>A 3.46-kg infant was delivered vaginally at term; he had a normal right testis and an undescended left testis, with otherwise normal male genitalia. At the age of six months, the left testis was palpable at the inguinal ring. Surgical exploration at the age of 15 months revealed a hernial sac containing an abnormal gonad and vas deferens. These structures were excised; they proved on histologic examination to be an ovary with a fallopian tube attached to a horn of uterus.

And that's not even getting into the neurology aspect of things; there's more and more evidence that the brain is hardwired in some way (probably related to sex differences at a few loci) based on sex; the rare occasions where the physiological sex and the neurological features are mismatched seem to be the root cause of transgender identity.


Of course, there will be the liberal snowflakes who try to say biological sex is a societal construct, just as there will be the conservative crybabies who try to say none of it's real anyway, but some people just aren't interested in reality.