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Single-sex toilets must exclude transgender people, says Equality and Human Rights Commission
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Biology is a term used to describe how your body functions. Hormones changing your body is biology, whether they're natural or otherwise. "Biological sex" is a dog whistle. It is not a term used by people who are being honest. It's just sex, or sex assigned at birth. "Biological sex" is a term for bigots to sound like they have science on their side.
Exactly what I said, there's no other kind
Biology is how the body is functioning and growing. This is defined by what hormones are in the body, as hormones tell cells how to function. In this way, biological sex is the sex defined by what hormones are in your body. Sex assigned at birth does not necessarily match this.
Biological sex is not a term that has any meaning. It is a term invented to lend the air of scientific authority to a certain group of people making a bad faith argument. Sex is the term that is more commonly used, or sex assigned at birth to be more specific (which implies it changes and is not just gender).
Iff (if and only if) we're using the words as their definitions imply, biological sex = what hormones are in your body. Hormones define how your body functions, meaning their biological activity. Then it follows that hormone replacement therapy changes biological sex. It isn't the bullshit static thing the people typically using the word to mean, as a replacement for "sex assigned at birth". That term they won't use because it lends credence to the idea it can change, rather than something that makes them sound as if their opinion is based in science.
To be clear though, hormones don't define how your body functions, that'd be DNA. You wouldn't have hormones or the ability to process them into meaningful signals without DNA. Ultimately, "biological sex" is determined by the sex chromosomes, which never change. I'm not arguing whether or not right-wing chuds co-opted the term (I've no clue, I don't listen to right wing chuds), but it does have an objective, scientific, apolitical, societally functional meaning.
Chicken or egg. Hormones don't work without DNA, but also your cells don't function without hormones. The DNA has the instructions, but the hormones tell it what instruction to follow. Your cells don't know to create a leg where your leg is until hormones tell them that they're supposed to be leg cells. The DNA is the same, but the hormones tell them what to do.
Sort of true, but we can now add/change hormones that aren't created in our bodies by design. We also get hormones through our diet too. DNA does have instructions that allow it to produce hormones when the right conditions are met, but that's not the only way to get them, nor does that define sex as we all produce both sex hormones in different quantities.
That's the funny thing; does it? We all think it does, until you try to define it. Give it a shot. If it's XX/XY, intersex people break it. If it's reproduction, sterile people break it. If it's what gonads you posses, people who have had hysterectomies break it.
I've never actually heard a definition that doesn't break down somewhere. It can still be useful, but it's a spectrum. If you define it as a spectrum then it's actually pretty simple, and it's based on how their body is currently functioning.
Intersex people have sex chromosomes, idk what you mean that they "break" anything. We even already have a term for them, it's "intersex". If we need to add terms when distinctt genetic morphologies are established, we can! That's the beauty of science, we're always learning more.
Everything in your body comes from DNA first. The first bits of you that ever existed were chromosomes, everything else comes as a result of how your dad's DNA combined with your mom's DNA to make your DNA. You can add all the outside hormones to your body that you want, without DNA telling your body how to respond to them, all you'd have is dead meat filled with chemicals.
Yes, and they don't always match what you'd expect. There are XX "men" and XY "women".
Again, chicken or egg. They don't exist in a vacuum. There are hormones in their environment when the egg is fertilized that tell the DNA how to express itself. Without hormones all you'd have is dead meat. Your body can not function or form without hormones. DNA is a set of rules, and hormones tell it which rules to follow. They work together. Neither is more important than the other. DNA with "female" hormones develop a female body, no matter what DNA they have, and vice versa. The DNA usually (but not always) is an indicator of what hormones they'll produce, but the expression is also dictated by hormones.
Well we hit the reply limit so I won't be able to respond to the proper comments and quoting is far too tedious. As such, you'll just have to use context clues to figure out which parts of your most recent comment I'm referring to.
Obviously there's no first chicken but they all came out of eggs. And I was only half-trolling about the plant DNA, I'm also pointing out the importance of DNA. You said it didn't matter what the DNA was, I pointed out the flaw in that reasoning. It has to be the right DNA, estradiol is estradiol no matter where it occurs, it can't turn anything female.
And sorry if you feel you've wasted time, personally that's the only reason I'm on this platform. 🤷♂️
Personally, I have no expectations. Like I said, if we need more accurate language, all else we need is the data for it to describe.
The chicken-egg thing is easy though, the egg came first. All chickens came out of eggs, including the first one. Two non-chickens combined their DNA to make a chicken, which came out of an egg.
Where did the hormones that control DNA expression come from? DNA. DNA is more than 3 billion years older than hormones, DNA can replicate itself without hormones. Hormones can't combine themselves to make new hormones, and they certainly can't turn themselves into DNA.
Not true. Add human estrogen to sex-undetermined plant DNA, you certainly won't make a female human and you have no guarantees what sex the plant will be. Add it to asexual organisms, they're not going to suddenly develop hitherto non-existent sex morphologies. DNA is king, it's straight-up GOATed. The only way to break it down further is to start categorizing people by their A-T to G-C ratio, and I don't think that's an efficient use of time, technology, or resources.
I don't know if you're trolling or not. There is no sudden point where chicken evolution became a chicken. They just get more and more chicken like traits. It's a spectrum of evolution, which is still ongoing.
No? It was in the environment first. Then evolution selected DNA that responded to the environment in ways that helped it reproduce. This then evolved into cells that produce their own hormones that act on DNA in existing pathways. Without DNA already being effected by hormones in the environment there likely wouldn't have been evolutionary pressure to manufacture them.
You're obviously trolling. Clearly I'm talking about humans. Wtf. Cut out your bad faith shit. You're wasting both of our time.
Thanks for continuously restating what I originally said!