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It's not unknowable, you're just being intentionally obtuse. It's knowable with better science, it's just possible that an expert is wrong. If they're wrong, that doesn't change reality.
Someone's sex exists regardless of my ability to discern it. Your example is bad faith trolling.
If it's irrelevant then just ignore it. You can't handle the truth and so you troll and try to derail and accuse and insult.
Again, not undiscernable. Are you able to understand that?
I love that you admit that you can't do it and even that the greatest experts mightn't be able to do it but yet still believe it's a useful definition! It's a useless and crap definition! Actually useless! Complete crap!
Chromosomes are testable. Verifyable. Take a blood sample, some time in the lab and it's done! This is why scientists use them to define sex. Your definition is untestable! It's not science. It's pseudoscience. It sounds plausible because it uses technical terms, and stupid people believe it because it sounds clever. But because you believed trump, who is famously very stupid, you have believed a stupid thing, and you can't stop talking about it, in public!
If I found out that trump had duped me into believing some pseudoscience, I would be ASHAMED. You, not so much.
Sadly I think you missed this. Again, not undiscernable. Are you able to understand that?
You should let the author of this text book know that his definition is complete crap lol:
Wow stop the press! The author of a textbook says there are only two sexes!
The. Author. Of. A. Textbook!
In addition to the other links I've already posted to peer-reviewed papers explaining the same thing, yes, the fact that you can find the same definition in any textbook on biology shows that is a useful definition that's used widely across the field of biology.
You can't cite anything to the contrary.
Nobody needs to cite a damn thing. You're not interested in science except where it suits you.
You on the other hand, making attacking trans people your daily mission rather than getting on with your life?
You will make a fascinating case study for a psychologist one day.
Closeted cowardly little attack dog scared of your own shadow.
Too true. Scared dogs bark a lot. Confident dogs accept and welcome.
It is pure tragicomedy that a person who has not done the work on themselves - who is full of self-doubt and self-loathing and does not know who they are - comes here to presume to tell those of us who have done the work and who do know who we are, that we don't know who we are.
In ten years time, when this person grows up and gets tired of running from themselves, when they finally face themselves honestly, they will come to realize that others spotted them a decade ago. That all that time they were fooling nobody, not even themselves.
That all that time, they could have had self-respect, friends and maybe even a love life, but instead they chose to be unpleasant, mean spirited, cowardly and dishonest, rather than look inward.
I tire of even insulting such a wretched individual, such an intellectual and emotional lightweight that I could eat for breakfast.
The singular reason that I take pity on this pathetic and confidently wrong individual is because I was once a bit like them (albeit not as much of an asshole).
Regret is forever.
Why do you think posting about scientific truth is attacking trans people?
Because it doesn't fucking matter a rats ass in the context of people living their lives.
You can't leave it alone? You need to be right?
Newsflash: You're autistic too!
Edit: I'm autistic myself and happy with it.
So you think science is anti trans?
Science is investigative discipline, it is neither for/against.
You cherrypicking science is anti trans.
In the context of people living their lives and being as they are, science isn't even relevant.
What's decidedly unscientific though is coming into a room full of people called "Brian" while telling them that nobody is called "Brian" because you're too much of a pussy to just face your own gender nonconformity.
The lady doth protest too much!
You're again confusing sex and gender. I am merely stating a widely recognized scientific fact that the original meme is incorrect about.
I would love nothing more than for this entire thread to have not happened. The response to my original comment should have been "Yep, that's true for sex, thanks for differentiating it from gender"
If you can't handle the truth, that's on you.
Why are you stating it? Why do you care? Why not let others just live their lives?
You're invested in being right because you're too scared to be honest with yourself.
Autistic, so gender nonconforming by definition.
Deal with it, pussy!
I'm correcting the meme, because it's wrong. Why do you think that's not letting people live their lives?
Because it self-evidently isn't letting people live their lives, is it?
You're on an obsessive autistic quest to be "correct" on a matter which has nothing to do with you. It wouldn't matter anyway even if you were "correct" - though you aren't. Wading into a room of empirical evidence, brandishing textbook, claiming "science"? Puh-lease!
Your opinion on other people's expression of their lived humanity is utterly irrelevant.
Why do you think you're not autistic?
Why do you think you're not trans?
You can lie to everyone but you can't lie to yourself.
Instead of getting therapy and living your best life, you'll continue being a mediocre, obsessive troll on this one particular subject, questioning nothing about your own desperate behavior, making the world a worse place for everyone who encounters you.
Absolute coward, who can't admit to yourself what's screamingly obvious to everyone you troll! You have no cover when surrounded by those who see right through it. You are naked!
Trans (across) genders and in denial, clinging desperately to reductionist incorrect "science" from cherrypicked sources because you think an incorrect science textbook is going to shield you from your true self?
Start by being honest with yourself, because it's you who has to live with yourself for the rest of your life, and you've got a lot of growing up to do.
You're a gender nonconforming autistic person, aren't you? How do you think I know? Because I am too!
Meanwhile you can't keep quiet about yourself and are literally going around outing yourself to everyone! Which WILL reveal your fakeness to everyone else, even if you're too in denial to face yourself honestly.
I don't care if you're too stupid to see how nakedly obvious you are. Carry on pretending, it won't work.
People can't live their lives because a meme is wrong?
People can't live their lives because pussy little online bullies such as you won't see a therapist and talk about your "power struggle" with your own transgender self, and your subsequent overflowing self-hatred and resulting inability to relate to anyone.
You're so clever.
Do you need help understanding?
I was being sarcastic. Secretly I think you're far, far more stupid than you begin to realise, because everyone who tries to explain what science or scientific method or scientific consensus means has wasted their breath because you'd rather cling to and defend daddy trump's pseudoscience than learn amything. It's willful ignorance and maybe the only cure is when trump's goons kidnap someone you actually care about in real life that you might begin to question him in any meaningful way.
Do you need help understanding?
I think I explained that one pretty well.
Do you need help understanding?