Kids without gonads usually have Swyer syndrome.

This is actually a really good question in medicine that would do us a lot of good to look into!

But I’m not misconstuing it. There are multiple instances of trans people getting harmed, even dying, because medical professions did not know their biological sex and administered inappropriate treatments or dismissed signs. It IS important to be able to know biological sex in a medical setting.

1) There are legitimate medical reasons for noting sex as it is expressed through the interplay of your genes, hormones and physical anatomy. For example, the way you process drugs can be radically different depending on these factors.

Well, if your friend is that way, it would be important, medically, for anybody to be aware that he was biologically female. There’s been research that indicates that that’s a big reason why trans people, even accounting for other factors, have shorter life expectancies than cis people - because unless professionals…

You realize that using a birth certificate to get other forms of ID is pretty much how it works, right? You’re going to carry around an ID, not a birth certificate.

Then I’d also presume you are in favor of removing any liability from anybody who gives inappropriate treatment to somebody if they use a license that presents with the wrong sex to make that determination? And yes, that actually happens - particularly to trans people, but also others. But as long as you’re cool with…

Legal proof of citizenship and identity. Vital statistics, which are important for figuring out ways to help people from dying prematurely. And I think it’s super awesome & important to include “intersex” as an option on birth certs. Also think it’s important to note transitions.

OK I can’t speak to her case but I can speculate a little.

...except I noted trans people above. But trans people are not intersex. Trans people are experiencing genuine dysphoria, which is an actual medical condition and need to undergo sex reassignment (note - not gender reassignment, which is not a thing) in order to treat the condition. Trans people are in a category of…

There are actually decent reasons to list biological sex, mostly medical ones. As much as it might bother some people, there are actual important differences between male and female bodies that can dictate health concerns and treatments....so yes, I don’t have a problem denoting sex on a birth certificate.

We don’t though! Sex is what is listed in your birth certificate. Her condition is “intersex” not “intergender.”

This is a reasonable take in some ways. I can see the appeal. But having children isn’t buying a boat. It’s not some frivolous luxury, access to which should rightfully be limited to those who can afford it. Having and bringing up children is more like a right for individuals and a necessity for any society and…

The lack of affordable daycare is a major economic and feminist issue. I know plenty of men who are the primary caregivers for their children (either because their husbands or their wives are the primary breadwinners), but I know that’s not the norm, and I feel like as long as the majority of the childcare tasks are…

The so-called “nerd culture” that has become popular in the past decade or so was largely a product of white culture.

The funny thing is, slavery is at an all time global high, but not in white countries.

But, apparently between a rich white man and a rich white woman, the woman is still the one to get torn to shreds by half the commenters on a “feminist” website.

Particularly because she’s viewed as odd. While he is sweet, handsome boy next door. This is such a puritan country, who’s going to give the odd woman with the checkered past the benefit of the doubt against prince charming? And I’m not slamming him (even though it kind of sounds that way), he seems like a guy who…

I hear you. We *don’t* know what happened in the angry meltdown between Angelina and Brad. I doubt very much that either of them are saints. I also don’t think either of them were innocents led astray, somehow. It was a pretty impassioned relationship, until all the passion petered out under career pressures, kids,…

Yeah, this does seem like a situation where the school has it’s priorities straight.