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also sex defined this narrowly isnt that useful. the arguments for sex segregated spaces or even the effects of sex as a variable in medicine are because of far less dimorphic charicatistics associated within it. like we don’t separate sports bc gametes, we do it bc avg strength
even medically, many more things matter than just, say, chromosomes. like a male put on puberty blockers and crosssex hormones on the onset of puberty shares a more more female typical risk profile for many medical issues. and they would be similarly weaker than men etc as well
(not arguing against sex as a useful variable, it’s very useful, even for just the far less dimorphic things it correlates with. but you have to keep in mind that the things we often care about with to sex are less dimorphic than gametes and ignoring that is stupid)
but these types often have a motte and bailey where they will make insane claims about, say, trans people in sports using broad avg male/female athletic performance and then when questioned on it they will fall back to like narrowly using chromosomes or gametes or whatever
like sure, x is female, but you have to ask “why do we separate sex here” and the answer is often broad traits that correlate with sex and those traits are far more bimodal, and it could often make sense to make exemptions for a female that has male typical traits or vice versa
