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Re:First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb by contravariant on Saturday April 19, 2025 @05:25PM (#43739605)
That's a gross oversimplification. Virilisation is a complex process with many factors.

If you're still human if you're born without legs then clearly neither genetic or developmental traits determine someone's humanity.

So at what point do we call someone a woman born without a uterus? When a 'normal' pregnancy would have resulted in them having a uterus? When different genetics would have resulted in them having a uterus? Or when she herself complains that she lacks a uterus?

Re:First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb by remarkEon on Sunday April 20, 2025 @12:55AM (#43741613)
I'm applying the same logic, I'm not simplifying anything. You are using the word "humanity" to mean something different from what the rest of the thread is talking about. To address what I think your point is, many wish to expand the malleability of basic biological concepts based on edge cases. Edge cases for which we already have definitions and categories. You are doing so now, by attempting to entrench ambiguity on the entire concept of "woman" by observing that the woman in TFA was born with a specific, heritable, abnormality that prevented the nominal development of a uterus.