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   Steve Gisselbrecht (stevegis_ssg@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 19:16:58 JST Steve Gisselbrecht

   I want to rescue this from my account on the birdsite but I once got into arguing with TERFs (it happens, try not to judge me too harshly) and as a biologist I just wanted to push back a little on the "it's just biology" line, so I wrote the following:

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     Steve Gisselbrecht (stevegis_ssg@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 19:16:58 JST Steve Gisselbrecht

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     Okay, sex determination in humans.

     This shit is COMPLICATED and this will probably be a longish thread. Sorry. But I've seen a lot of people claim that "biology says" that everyone is either male or female, full stop, and it's just not true. 1/22