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Frau Katze's avatar

Trans women are XY, males. That cannot be changed.

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Siena Popiel's avatar

Thats obviously and factually wrong. There are dozens of permutations of chromosomes beyond XX and XY.

And, of course, you can be born XY but with female genetalia. And of course, there are men with XX chromosomes.

So, then, is your assertion that we need to do a chromosome test on everyone before we call them a woman or a man? And, then, what do we call people with XXY chromosomes?

This is a stupid thing for the public to be discussing, because its private medical information.

JVL said it really well last month: If trans women start ruining competitive in women's sports, we should start thinking about policy responses. But if no-one is getting hurt (and, lets face it, at this point, no one is getting hurt if a trans woman is the 2nd or 3rd best player on the 5th or 6th best team in the 8th or 9th best conference...) then why not just let that one girl run cross country in Maine?

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Frau Katze's avatar

If you have a Y chromosome youтАЩre male.

Males should not be permitted to compete in the female category.

Progress is being made. Lia Thomas was not permitted to compete in last yearтАЩs Olympics.

This is a classic losing issue for Dems.

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Paul Muncy's avatar

Gender is genetically more complicated than 8th grade biology. Beyond the different chromosome pairings, there are different epigenetic manifestations from genes that exist on chromosomes that aren't on the 23rd pair (i.e., the "sex chromosomes"). Some of these are pretty well understood, like the XY folks with Swyer syndrome who develop a uterus, fallopian tubes, vagina, etc.) and other aspects aren't yet fully understood, like XY folks who develop a penis but psychologically flourish with super low levels of testosterone (which in cis-gender men is generally psychologically debilitating).

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