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Re:True Name – Mastercard by snotrockets on Sunday January 07, 2024 @12:14PM (#38902996)
trans* people aren't crossdressers, and no, you wouldn't.

Pick a random thirst-trap influencer: on almost every post on their TikTok or Insta you'd see multiple comments suggesting they are trans.

Simply, there isn't a way to tell because as there is no biological marker that is a binary, as much as some would like to believe otherwise. Sex is a bimodal distribution, and as such there are people, cis and trans, that don't look like the gender you'd imagine them to be.

Re:True Name – Mastercard by camdenlock on Sunday January 07, 2024 @12:27PM (#38903107)
Sex is not bimodal, it’s binary. We as a society have to be able to just get past this. I, for example, am a male (sex) - but I identify as a woman (gender identity). These two things can be true at the same time, and do not conflict.
Re:True Name – Mastercard by snotrockets on Sunday January 07, 2024 @12:31PM (#38903136)
Biological sex markers are bimodal. Just ask the nearest health researcher: there isn't a single one that is strictly male or female.
Re:True Name – Mastercard by camdenlock on Sunday January 07, 2024 @12:46PM (#38903286)
That’s fine, but sex itself is still a binary concept and is very well defined, and is not controversial. For example, my sex is “0” (and not “1”) because my body is capable of producing “0”-style gametes, not “1”-style gametes (feel free to substitute the usual names for each sex, but you get the point).
Re:True Name – Mastercard by snotrockets on Sunday January 07, 2024 @01:10PM (#38903523)
One of your sexes, perhaps: there isn't a single marker for sex (and some of those we like to think of such markers aren't binary, but we can drop those for this exercise)
Re:True Name – Mastercard by camdenlock on Sunday January 07, 2024 @02:39PM (#38904422)
“Markers” are irrelevant. Either your body is capable of producing male gametes or it’s capable of producing female ones.
Re:True Name – Mastercard by ceejayoz on Sunday January 07, 2024 @05:53PM (#38906071)
That's just trivial to debunk. Infertile people may produce neither.

Less trivial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46,XX/46,XY

https://academic.oup.com/bjs/article-abstract/69/5/279/61857... "Ovulation in a cytogenetically proved phenotypically male fertile hermaphrodite"

Ovotesticular syndrome: https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/ovotesticular-disorde...

Re:True Name – Mastercard by camdenlock on Sunday January 07, 2024 @08:31PM (#38907213)
There are still only two types of gametes, and a body may produce only one. Infertility and other disorders don’t change that fact, and your linked material says nothing to contradict this.
Re:True Name – Mastercard by ceejayoz on Sunday January 07, 2024 @08:48PM (#38907334)
You could at least bother to read the titles; "Ovulation in a cytogenetically proved phenotypically male fertile hermaphrodite" is pretty clear.

> Histology of his removed ovary suggested that ovulation had, at some time, occurred. He had also fathered a child and this is believed to be the first case of a cytogenetically proved true hermaphrodite who is fertile as a male.

That's a single human body that produced both forms of gamete.

Re:True Name – Mastercard by camdenlock on Sunday January 07, 2024 @09:00PM (#38907419)
People of ambiguous sex exist, and there are only two sexes. I suspect you’re more than capable of accepting these two truths simultaneously.
Re:True Name – Mastercard by ceejayoz on Sunday January 07, 2024 @09:48PM (#38907678)
> For example, my sex is “0” (and not “1”)...

So, which is this individual, who produces both forms of gametes?

Am I, with no gametes, a null?

Re:True Name – Mastercard by camdenlock on Sunday January 07, 2024 @10:08PM (#38907803)
I’m confident that you’ll figure it out on your own.
Re:True Name – Mastercard by cuino on Sunday January 07, 2024 @10:54PM (#38908059)
Identifying as a woman (gender identity) does not mean you are a woman (female sex). Being male precludes this in reality.