Katarack21: 1) Biological sex isn't that simple.
Transgender activist propaganda may have confused you, but biological sex is very simple, really. In the overwhelming majority of cases, sex is determined by the presence or absence of an Y chromosome. In case of chromosomal abnormalities, sexual phenotype is determined by the presence of an activated SRY gene. This XY sex determination system is highly conserved amongst Animalia; you cannot invalidate the very real, binary concept of biological sex and replace it with the deluded, contrived notion of 'gender' on the basis of the existence of very rare mutations and chromosomal aberrations.
Katarack21: Chromosomes are way more complicated then that--XYY is more common that schizophrenia,
You are incorrect. The prevalence of schizophrenia is 0.3%-0.7%, whereas the prevalence of 47,XYY syndrome is 0.003%. Those numbers are not even in the same ballpark. Sadly, transgender activists misrepresenting and obfuscating facts is the norm rather than the exception. Again, the existence of these abnormalities does not invalidate biological sex.
Sources:
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020141
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.c.31805
Katarack21: and the majority of people who have it never even realize they do but go their whole life thinking their normal males.
What orifice did you pull this nonsensical blanket statement from? Never mind, I don't want to know.
47,XYY comes with significant comorbidity, such as low muscle tone, learning disabilities, developmental disorders (ADHD, autism), infertility, ... The prevalence of comorbidities in 47,XYY syndrome is a staggering 80%-99%.
Katarack21: That isn't even getting into the weird things that can happen with hormones--androgen resistance is a real thing that can make a genetic XY person develop with a completely female body--or gene transposition like having a partial X chromosome overwrite the Y chromosome etc. Biological sex has *always* been more complicated then than the hard XX/XY dichotomy we simplify it as.
Why do you sound so sure of yourself when your rigour is so shallow?
Genetically male individuals with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) do not have "completely female" bodies. There is a range of phenotypes spanning those with external female genitale to those with undermasculinised male genitals. Those with complete androgen insensitivity still have internal undescended testes and do not have a uterus. Since the prevalence of AIS is exceedingly low at 0.002%-0.005% and it is an intersex condition, this does not invalidate biological sex either.
Katarack21: 2) Biological sex has *nothing* to do with gender.
Sex is binary. Gender has no grounding in reality at all; transgenders are just LARPing as the opposite sex.
Katarack21: There can be and have been and currently *are* many, many societies with more than two gender positions, sometimes five or six,
Describe five of these "many" genders and the societies they come from.
Katarack21: and which gender you fall into is a social and psychological construct that is interrelated to how your biological sex is perceived by both yourself and others but is not dependent on it.
In other words, 'gender' is a figment. I do not perceive a hirsute woman with mastectomy scars and female genitalia as male. Trans men are not men, trans women are not women.
Katarack21: 3) I don't know that you're bigoted, but you are *definitely* ignorant. That's not a *value* judgement, it's a statement about your lack of knowledge regarding the genetics, physiology, and anthropology of both sex and gender.
The pot is calling the kettle black. Your post was filled with inaccurate statements and falsehoods, as I have demonstrated. TauLambda has done nothing but produce carefully weighed, scientifically accurate statements and calling a medical researcher 'ignorant' is the arrogance I have come to expect from woke types. If anyone lacks knowledge regarding genetics, physiology and anthropology of sex and gender, it is you.
What bothers me most about you woke people is that you seldom argue in good faith. You make up nonsense, yet confidently present it as absolute truth. Secretly you don't believe "trans (wo)men are (wo)men", yet you go along with the lie in fear of being cast out of your social group or 'canceled'.
I implore you, keep this gender nonsense out of Baldur's Gate 3 and gaming in general.