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   Dr Alice Violett (alicemcalicepants@ohai.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 00:23:06 JST Dr Alice Violett

   I'm a cis woman, and *I* don't know if I'd neatly fit some bigot essentialist's 'biological woman' category. I've never had an ultrasound other than on my eyes, or had my chromosomes or particular hormone levels identified, and my body doesn't fully operate as advertised on the box for one reason or another. Just let people live their lives, fgs.

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     Oggie (oggie@woof.group)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 02:18:49 JST Oggie

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     @alicemcalicepants
     I mean, I'm a cis male, but for all I know I have a nonfunctional uterus or something. If so, it's never come up.

     We're all just a series of 'good enough' stuff that 'mostly' works, and average stuff is just...what mostly seems to hit most people. IT's all such guesswork.

     If you haven't ever seen this, a fantastic story about averages and baselines is absolutely insane-
     https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/when-u-s-air-force-discovered-the-flaw-of-averages/article_e3231734-e5da-5bf5-9496-a34e52d60bd9.html

     Nobody, but nobody, is actually average.