Does God have the right to reassign your gender?

[xerx]

Nah.

Watch the OP.

[mfckrz]

Watch the OP.

I'm familiar with it (always love Sapolsky videos). I just think the straightforward XX/XY chromosomal schema is fine enough for taxonomizing gender.

And yes, I'm aware that sex chromosome disorders exist where people can be born XXY, XYY, etc. But these are such edge cases (1 in 20,000 or more?) that I don't think they represent any fundamental challenge to the standard gender binary.

[xerx]

I'm familiar with it (always love Sapolsky videos). I just think the straightforward XX/XY chromosomal schema is fine enough for taxonomizing gender.

And yes, I'm aware that sex chromosome disorders exist where people can be born XXY, XYY, etc. But these are such edge cases (1 in 20,000 or more?) that I don't think they represent any fundamental challenge to the standard gender binary.

Do you think people with AIS be considered fully male?

[mfckrz]

Do you think people with AIS be considered fully male?

If gender is binary, then quantifiers like "fully male" or "somewhat female" have no relevance.

Else we'd get trapped into other definitional rabbitholes like trying to adjudicate gender by levels of sex hormones or what not.

[xerx]

If gender is binary, then quantifiers like "fully male" or "somewhat female" have no relevance.

Else we'd get trapped into other definitional rabbitholes like trying to adjudicate gender by levels of sex hormones or what not.

Ok, but Would you say that people with AIS are male?

[mfckrz]

Ok, but Would you say that people with AIS are male?

Yes.

[xerx]

Yes.

If they're indeed men with an abnormality, assuming we have the procedure, is it unethical to force them to develop male characteristics at the time of birth?