Joykins
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I feel weird saying this, but I'm going to say it anyway.
To be honest, it was originally my intention to not post in this thread. I'm not very interested in transgenderism, and this lack of interest generally leads me to the conclusion that I don't have much to add to the discussion. I simply do not care if someone identifies as a man or as a woman. If someone who was assigned male at birth indicates that they're a woman, fine. If someone who was assigned female at birth indicates that they're a man, fine. I don't care. They can use whatever restroom they want, wear whatever clothes they want, have their birth certificate changed to say whatever they want, marry whomever they want, and it simply does not matter to me. My response is a very firm shrug.
But what I am profoundly interested in is biology, specifically genetics, and it really bothers me when people try to present genetics (specifically the X and Y chromosome) as simplistic and clear in order to make an argument against transgenderism; this kind of action does great violence to genetics. Genetics is many things (magnificent, fascinating, powerful, glorious, inspiring . . . ) but it isn't simple or clear. Minimizing the amazing complexity of genetics in order to further a political point just isn't something I can get on-board with.
So I'm going to ask (in vain, I'm sure) that people not make statements like, "It's easy: anyone with two X chromosomes is a woman and anyone with one X chromosome and one Y chromosome is a man." It isn't that easy, it has never been that easy, and it will never be that easy. I cannot express the incredible, transcendent joy I experience when I learn about how biology and genetics actually operate in the world, and to watch this truth be mutilated so that people can insist that moral issues are as simple as pretend-simple biology (as opposed to true-complicated biology) is painful to me.
I think it's safe to say that XY and penis is human male and XX and vagina is human woman, e.g. biological sex, BUT that there are exceptions to this rule. In terms of gender (why do I keep thinking "people have sex, nouns have gender"?), the social and mental aspect of gender is usually consonant with biological sex, but, again there are exceptions, and we need to treat those people also as human beings created in the image of God who are dealing the best they can with a very complicated issue, and not some kind of deviant freak and threat to all the little girls in the potty.
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