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Re:A village where little girls turn into boys aged twelve (... by Chris2048 on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @11:49AM (#15295075)
Doesn't "birth sex" mean "biological sex" as opposed to the sex "assigned at birth"? As in "what you are born as" with the assumption that a newborn child is totally unconditioned.
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Re:A village where little girls turn into boys aged twelve (... by JimboOmega on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @12:59PM (#15295932)
To say that implies that there's no biological basis for people who feel transgender.

You're thinking of "chromosomal sex".

There's all sorts of other things that can happen that lead to a mismatch between these things.

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Re:A village where little girls turn into boys aged twelve (... by Chris2048 on Thursday September 21, 2017 @06:44AM (#15302101)
What I'm suggesting, is that "birth sex" is a synonym for "chromosomal sex". I'm not sure how you conclude this point implies that "there's no biological basis for people who feel transgender".
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Re:A village where little girls turn into boys aged twelve (... by Chris2048 on Thursday September 21, 2017 @11:19AM (#15304296)
I keep getting down-voted. Is there some kind of topic brigading going on?
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