This is legitimately a bit funny but it would be hard to think about this as anything but sophistry.
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Dkarma@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Shouldn’t everyone be sent to women’s prisons based on sex at conception?
Lovstuhagen@hilariouschaos.com 2 months ago
sj_zero 2 months ago
Do you think Chromosomes are purchased at the dollar store when it's convenient?
They're determined at the moment of fertilization when the sperm and the egg combine their DNA to create a new set of DNA. Then, at the moment of conception, you either have Two X chromosomes or One Y Chromosome (like the subreddits) and you get a male or a female 99.95-99.99% of the time if the pregnancy makes it to term.
It's like the subreddits. Two X Chromosomes for women, One Y Chromosome for a man. There's exceptions but it's an extreme rarity so to make the federal rule "What do your Chromosomes say" is an achievable and consistent standard the vast overwhelming majority of the time.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Irrelevant. Sex isn’t physically/biologically represented until hormones start being produced well after conception. To argue this fact would be to admit that a fetus that physically represents a female by all possible physical traits can absolutely still be male if that’s what they feel like.
sj_zero 2 months ago
I mean, it's represented in the DNA by having the one or two X chromosomes. You could grab some zygotic DNA and run a PCR test and see which it's going to be before it ever stops being a blob of cells.
Your logic is totally broken. "What they feel like" is completely different than an actual genetic marker which can be measured and quantified. This DNA has this, This other DNA has that. Feelings have nothing to do with it. The legal definition becomes about a quite simple PCR test, rather than the fuzzy world of infant development or the fuzzier world of gender identity.
As I've already mentioned, this test won't be correct in a small number of cases, but as a general rule it'll be correct 99.95-99.99% of the time which is good enough for government work.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I like how you admit that it goes for everyone except the people it doesn’t go for. Solid grounding.