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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by andy_ppp on Saturday September 04, 2021 @07:21AM (#28414087)
We all start off genderless until testosterone washes over the male unborn foetus starting some of the gender characteristics like penises and brain changes. I think (it’s hard to tell as you’re so muddled in your thinking) you’re taking the bell curve of differences and how those differences manifest and attempting to make up concrete rules. Statistics doesn’t work that way.
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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by lwhi on Saturday September 04, 2021 @07:31AM (#28414146)
If testosterone is the defining characteristic of being male, I have no idea why trans people born male need take hormones to reduce testosterone levels.

Also gender is independent of sexual apparatus.

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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by andy_ppp on Saturday September 04, 2021 @08:20AM (#28414420)
I really don’t get your argument at all. Testosterone and other androgens can increase masculine features. In a purely statistical sense gender and sexual apparatus are heavily correlated, but then I see gender as being more of a spectrum than a binary anyway. I think these things can be influenced by the environment a lot, if you believe you’re a bunch of chemical reactions happening in a biological system how can what we be anything apart from hormones, genetics and culture interacting to express a gender?
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Re:How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to ev... by lwhi on Saturday September 04, 2021 @08:55AM (#28414655)
The development of masculine features or otherwise in no way necessitates the development of a matching gender identity.

What exactly do you think being transgender means?

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