#art-and-science

[stevensaus]

Embark on a visual voyage of art inspired by black holes

Art and science converge in Lynn Gamwell’s book, Conjuring the Void: The Art of Black Holes...

Embark on a visual voyage of art inspired by black holes

[stevensaus]

Study: Kids’ drip paintings more like Pollock’s than those of adults

The splatter master was more clumsy than graceful in his movements, which are key to his distinctive style.

Study: Kids’ drip paintings more like Pollock’s than those of adults

[sipplesaunter]

I am all for the LGBT community, and I agree that someone can be born a man in a woman's body or vice versa. But biologically, a person is male if they have a XY chromosome and a woman is they have XX chromosome. That doesn't mean this line isn't occasionally crossed with certain disorders (most of which are rare) but a persons biological gender is unfortunately determined by chromosomes.

I hope you don't take this as me being rude, but if you reinforce the male/female dichotomy and insist on outdated and inaccurate definitions of sex, you're not really "all for the LGBT community."  If you want to describe someone by what chromosomes they have why not just say "Dylan" has xy" or "Sage has xo" or "Parker has xx?"  Almost nobody would just think about what chromosomes someone has when they hear that they are male or female.  Instead people think about physical and social characteristics.  Plus, like I said in my post, most places define biological sex by what type of gametes are produced, not by chromosomes.

I very well understand how biology works, I have taken several classes on it, my father is a biology teacher, and I looked at a lot of biology and medical sites while trying to find a good definition of biological sex.  I also understand how science overall works, and when science is confronted with changing information, it takes that into account and fixes itself.  It's just lazy science to say that people are either biologically male or biologically female and then they stay that way their entire lives.  The observable facts about not only phenotypes (of both transgender people and the 1/12,500 people born with opposite phenotypes and genotypes) but also genotypes (of the 1/500 people born with xxy and the 1/2000 people born with xo) show that it's just not that simple.

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