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Trajectory: Escape Velocity by artcollisions

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Whoa. I can understand why this makes you mad. I hope that texts are written better now.

I might have been unclear. I'm not mad at Medawar, and I think that (4) is still reasonably accurate. Obviously there are questions about "male" and "female" as terms in the first place, but that's not what I was mad at.

What I'm mad at is that (1) is basically the understanding often used by transphobes. That would be, uh, "okay" if they didn't try to make it out as a scientific truth, but as Medawar's passage demonstrates, actual scientists have long since moved past the simplistic understanding there, and not out of some political conspiracy, but because it is false.

Modern biology textbooks past the Texas high school level would certainly go into more detail about sex determination than "Y makes you a dude". That's a totally inadequate understanding of sex determination, even before getting into intersexuality and transsexuality. There's androgen insensitivity syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, XX males, etc. It has been known to be inadequate by the scientific community for decades, and yet it is the understanding obviously in mind of some living people, including legislators.

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Neuron art quilt about 6 by 9 inches. Grey neuron floating on a black background with silver and metallic green highlights.