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Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements by naasking on Monday May 06, 2024 @12:39PM (#40276529)
He addresses that in one of the links.
Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements by Dylan16807 on Monday May 06, 2024 @01:02PM (#40276787)
Now you're cursing me to read entire twitter threads?

This isn't in fact my hobby horse so without more specifics I'll just treat him as talking past people and move on.

Looking at the video in the second link, it looks like he only spent three minutes talking about trans people and I don't see any explanation there about how you're supposed to apply his universal biological definition to individual people.

Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements by naasking on Monday May 06, 2024 @01:32PM (#40277123)
It's in the second paragraph of one of the links I posted:

"It happens to be embryologically DETERMINED by chromosomes in mammals and (in the opposite direction) birds, by temperature in some reptiles, by social factors in some fish."

Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements by Dylan16807 on Monday May 06, 2024 @01:40PM (#40277222)
Most of the time!

Sometimes you don't get gametes. At that point, you either need to exclude those people from your classification system because it's ill-suited for this task, or you need to make your classification system significantly more complicated because there's a lot of edge cases.