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Then what does “biological sex” refer to? You seem to be saying that even though the vast majority of biological men have an XY karotype and that even...
May 02, 2025 at 11:43
Because AmadeusD is claiming that every human is either biologically male or biologically female, and so that no human is intersex. If his claim is tr...
May 02, 2025 at 11:08
Which means what?
May 02, 2025 at 10:54
Then what does it mean?
May 02, 2025 at 10:48
We can, and do, talk about intersex individuals having both a female phenotype and a male karotype, or having both a male phenotype and a female karot...
May 02, 2025 at 10:33
And there are factual examples of trans women being raped or sexually assaulted in men's prisons. In fact, according to this, "the total number of tra...
May 02, 2025 at 09:09
What's maleness? You missed the preceding sentence: Is a biological male any human with testes and a biological female any human with ovaries? If the ...
May 01, 2025 at 23:44
You were responding to my question to BitconnectCarlos, who claims that it is acceptable for a trans woman who passes as a biological woman to use wom...
May 01, 2025 at 23:35
Are you saying that a biological male is anyone with an SRY gene and a biological female is anyone without an SRY gene? I believe that Jane passes as ...
May 01, 2025 at 22:13
Why does appearance matter? If the concern is the safety and well being of cisgender women, and if you say that trans women who pass as biological wom...
May 01, 2025 at 21:29
Everyone should generally strive to act in ways that facilitate social cohesion and integration, and one such way is to not lash out when someone you ...
May 01, 2025 at 20:39
Who gets to decide whether or not someone is passing? Is the masculine-looking cisgender woman who is often mistaken for a man required to use the men...
May 01, 2025 at 20:34
So your suggestion is that bathrooms should be divided by "has a penis" (including trans men with an artificial penis) and "doesn't have a penis" (inc...
May 01, 2025 at 20:23
But if the law requires that one's biological sex determines which bathroom one can use then plenty of women will be outraged by Leo Macallan in a wom...
May 01, 2025 at 20:06
So what bathroom should Leo Macallan use?
May 01, 2025 at 19:58
Which sentences are synonymous? Surely not "X is good" and "I ought do X" because ought implies can but "X is good" does not seem to imply "I can do X...
May 01, 2025 at 19:47
By this you mean "biological men should not be allowed access to biological women's spaces"? But the question is: should prisons be divided into one s...
May 01, 2025 at 17:27
Why should transgender women have to be exposed to cisgender male violence for cisgender women to be protected from transgender female violence? If yo...
May 01, 2025 at 17:15
Well yes, they are. That's why they are classified as biologically intersex rather than biologically male or biologically female. There is no set of n...
May 01, 2025 at 16:56
And also how dangerous it is for a trans woman to be in a men's prison.
May 01, 2025 at 16:44
I don't really understand what you're saying here. We ought be allowed to question authority and criticise what others say, but we ought not be allowe...
May 01, 2025 at 16:39
What else have I done? Then let's not consider some elected official. Ought the employee who falsely accuses (and knowingly so) his colleague of theft...
May 01, 2025 at 16:32
@"NOS4A2" I deleted my comment from a few seconds ago because I think I misinterpreted you.
May 01, 2025 at 16:22
Probably unisex toilets, sports teams divided by biological sex, and prisons divided by gender identity.
May 01, 2025 at 15:33
Yes. According to this, "infertility affects many – but not all – intersex people." Each person's sex gametes (sperm or egg) contain a complete set of...
May 01, 2025 at 15:00
I'm not sure what you're trying to argue there, or if you've misunderstood my argument here. I accept that "99.9% of people fall into two non-overlapp...
May 01, 2025 at 14:39
How have I abused my position? You obeyed, so I didn't punish you, and I might not have even threatened to punish you for disobeying. The only thing I...
May 01, 2025 at 14:33
Assume one does. I promise John £1,000 if he kills my wife. John then kills my wife. I renege on my promise. Ought I be punished for my involvement in...
May 01, 2025 at 14:11
There's not always the exchange of money, it might only be the promise of money, and surely a promise is just a speech-act? But there might not even b...
May 01, 2025 at 14:06
There is no single determinant in these cases. You seem to believe that the English words "male" and "female" refer to two clearly defined, mutually e...
May 01, 2025 at 13:58
How do you distinguish between action and speech in the cases mentioned? Biden isn't physically placing handcuffs on Trump and throwing him in jail; h...
May 01, 2025 at 13:38
What molecules determine someone to be either a man or a woman? But also your use of "immediately apparent" suggests that you think that biological se...
May 01, 2025 at 13:33
So the law ought allow for anyone to use any bathroom?
May 01, 2025 at 13:15
So which aspect of an intersex person’s biology determines them to be either male or female?
May 01, 2025 at 12:55
What about biology determines if someone is male or female? You don’t seem to recognise that being intersex is a biological condition. That’s part of ...
May 01, 2025 at 12:35
Determined by what? Is this also true of those who undergo sex reassignment surgery (including genitals)? Or is it only “natural” appearance that matt...
May 01, 2025 at 11:56
I’m not disputing your suggestions, just seeking clarity.
May 01, 2025 at 11:53
They’re intersex
May 01, 2025 at 11:50
It was non-binary with ambiguous genitalia, i.e biologically intersex. The general gist I get from your answer is that the divisions should be “cisgen...
May 01, 2025 at 11:40
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
May 01, 2025 at 10:40
If your concern is the risk of sexual assault, a relevant question is: is a transgender woman more likely to sexually assault a cisgender woman in a w...
May 01, 2025 at 10:35
I think that many of these discussions tend to get caught up in pointless arguments about what the “real” meaning of a word is. If you choose to use t...
May 01, 2025 at 10:24
@"NOS4A2" If Biden, when he was President, were to have instructed the Department of Justice to arrest his political opponents and hold them in prison...
May 01, 2025 at 10:10
How does this address such statements as: 1. The universe was created by a supremely powerful deity 2. Intelligent extra-terrestrial life has visited ...
December 27, 2024 at 09:53
Mathematical platonists distinguish themselves from non-platonists like nominalists. Each group seems to understand what the other means, hence their ...
December 27, 2024 at 09:27
From here, "latonism about mathematics (or mathematical platonism) is the metaphysical view that there are abstract mathematical objects whose existen...
December 24, 2024 at 16:36
Different people may mean different things by "exist" but I don't think different people mean different things by "mathematical platonism", else there...
December 24, 2024 at 16:18
I assume Harry is arguing for platonism and Sally is arguing against platonism.
December 23, 2024 at 17:33
The question is ambiguous. Consider these two claims: 1. According to the Lord of the Rings canon, orcs exist 2. According to crazy folk, fairies exis...
December 23, 2024 at 15:39
I haven't made an error. You have. I explained it quite clearly in my last post here which you opted not to address. Firstly, you brought up chess as ...
December 23, 2024 at 09:23