If you’re hanging your hat on “genitalia at birth,” be careful! Science has something to say about that!

Yep, there’s a very small number of humans that were born with male and female parts. Still doesn’t mean men can become women and vice versa.

bUT geNDeR IZ A soCiaL COnSTrucT!

Men (gender 1 of 2) produce sperm and women (gender 2 of 2) produce eggs. Women also carry the babies to term (provided she doesn’t murder it by getting an abortion). You can say you’re a different gender all you want but unless you can perform the bodily functions of the gender you transition to, you just aren’t that gender.

bUT HIzTurEKtuMmEEz, bARrEN WUmbZ, aNd MEnoPAuzE!

Still a woman. Still a woman. Still a woman.

Reproduction aside, there’s a lot more to being a man or woman than how your junk works (or whether it works).

When you’re out and about and you meet a new person, you’re not asking yourself “uterus or testicles”? (Nor would anyone have the right or the means to check that, outside of a sexual relationship, thank god.) We don’t have chromosomal test kits that can tell you XY or XX. (Again, for medical privacy reasons, it’s wonderful that our DNA isn’t blasted on displays everywhere we go.)

All you have is what’s right in front of you. “Is this person looking/talking/acting male or female”? And while there are trans people who haven’t yet fully transitioned or aren’t passing well (supplying right-wing transphobic memers with fodder for mockery), there are a *lot* of trans people out there who are passing. A whole lot of them. You’d never know. Once you’ve met a certain number of people, statistical odds are that you’ve encountered at least one and probably several. And you go about your day without factoring these people into your opinions of transgenderism, because you just never notice. You simply reach for the default male/female collection of pronouns based on what your senses are telling you, unless told otherwise.

Last: Are you filling out their government forms? Are you deciding who they’re attracted to and who they date? Do you have access to their entire life memories and experiences? If not, then your ability to contradict another person’s proclaimed gender identity is limited. “You have no standing,” as it’s said. They have a dog in the fight, and you don’t. The answer matters a lot to them and doesn’t really matter to you.

Sure you can can call yourself whatever you want, and I can’t do jack about it, it still doesn’t mean it’s true. I mean you can call yourself Mr. Kylie Minogue all you want, but unless you wake up every morning next to a hideous banshee old enough to be your mother that steals songs from black and LGBTQ singers, you’re not really Mr. Kylie Minogue, now are you? And in case you’ve forgotten, I’m literally in the LGBTQ camp, so I got a helluva lot more standing on the issue than you do, so you can miss me with that I have no standing crap.

Alright, I give zero f**ks about what gender. If you can speak, tell me your pronouns and I will (hopefully) remember and respect them. If I slip, remind me.

Much could be said about this chart. I’ll just drop this here for now to say that pediatric science poses a challenge to the notion that 100% of all human beings are straightforwardly male or female.

Remember, a newborn infant didn’t choose to be born the way they are. They haven’t tasted one lick of culture. They haven’t been brainwashed one way or the other. They have no notion of what gender is and don’t even have to vocabulary yet to articulate what they are. Infants don’t have any ideological agenda.

They just *are.* And all that remains for us to do is to either recognize and accept them, or demonize and reject them for not conforming to “normal.”

"Remember, a newborn infant didn’t choose to be born the way they are. They haven’t tasted one lick of culture. They haven’t been brainwashed one way or the other. They have no notion of what gender is and don’t even have to vocabulary yet to articulate what they are. Infants don’t have any ideological agenda.

They just *are.*"

Perhaps they're on to something. Because other than giving birth and the rare act of nursing made necessary when the plastic goop substitute for mother's milk production gets disrupted, and, of course, online dating sites where everyone is lying about everything anyways and no one hooks up except married men and Nigerian princes volunteering for the Red Cross, this so-called gender divide means nothing, unless Mr Big Balls insists Honeybunch should was the dishes.

Someone flagged your comment and I ignored the flag from your comment because it abides by ToS. False flagging someone because they're telling [correct] facts about intersex people is pretty much interphobia. But if the facts were wrong and it was flagged, then the theory gets deleted because it would be interphobia.

Fact: Intersex people are real and can be born in various ways. Conservatives believe that intersex people were "born with a birth defect", to which first that's interphobic and secondly conservatives don't care about disabled people.

I've seen this first place, but intersex people are not disabled. But autistic people are disabled though, and Pauline Hanson back in 2017 said that autistic people "shouldn't be allowed" to be in a mainstream school.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-21/pauline-hanson-under-fire-repulsive-bigoted-comments-autism/8640328

brain has ceased functioning

Look at these conservatives being sexist