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Why is it "gender-critical" people manage to know so little about the biology human bodies despite obsessing over them constantly?
Pick a body part, organ, or function and search for sex differences. There’s a lot. Five million years of sexually dimorphic evolution will do that. And the sex binary is much older than that. Feeling uncomfortable in one’s body doesn’t change that. It’s the gender cultist who are the flat earthers.
Okay, the brain. The most important organ (after skin?) in the body. Please tell us the differences between men and women in the brain... specifically. Then you can move on to describing where in my brain that makes me specifically attracted to Asian women.
Male brains are larger, for a start. Also,

 
When everything works right you get "man" and "woman"--but there are all sorts of ways it can go wrong
I would argue that's a "feature" not a bug.
A "feature" which makes a representative of a species unable to pass along its genes to the next generation is a bug.
Having variance in perspectives is a socially important aspect, because it allows accessing perspectives which are normally only available across that boundary.

That was the whole point of "Running Up That Hill". Some people already have that, that difference of perspective. That song was about someone wanting to access that difference of perspective so badly they would make "a deal with God" for it.
Um, sort of? But nobody actually does have the objective of experiencing life as the opposite sex. If we genuinely could do so, I would want a year of it to be mandatory!
No, it's not a 'bug.' There is important evolutionary value to having non-reproducing members of any group. In much/most of human history, not all humans who lived to reproductive age actually reproduced. Individuals contribute to the survival of the group, with whom they may likely share genes by supporting reproductive individuals, providing for young, for elderly, basically doing every thing except making a baby.
 
Why is it "gender-critical" people manage to know so little about the biology of human bodies despite obsessing over them constantly? You'd think if you love your biological sex so much, it would inspire curiosity about human sexuality, not blustering ignorance.

For the record, stamping your foot and going "it just is" is not science, no matter what topic you happen to be discussing.
I guarantee I know more about the actual biology of sex than you. I'm using actual information and science as opposed to wishes.

But hey, if you want to bluster about and insult me, why don't you prove me wrong? Go find a human who has impregnated themselves with sperm and ova produced by their own body. Or find me a human who has both a scrotal sac AND fallopian tubes. OR find me a single person anywhere on the planet that produces a sperg. Or a completely new gamete that is neither sperm nor ova. Go ahead, I'll wait.
 
Why is it "gender-critical" people manage to know so little about the biology human bodies despite obsessing over them constantly?
Pick a body part, organ, or function and search for sex differences. There’s a lot. Five million years of sexually dimorphic evolution will do that. And the sex binary is much older than that. Feeling uncomfortable in one’s body doesn’t change that. It’s the gender cultist who are the flat earthers.
Okay, the brain. The most important organ (after skin?) in the body. Please tell us the differences between men and women in the brain... specifically. Then you can move on to describing where in my brain that makes me specifically attracted to Asian women.
Male brains are larger, for a start. Also,

Wow... that was... well, I mean not even going into answering my questions. Neurologically, explain it.
 
Why is it "gender-critical" people manage to know so little about the biology of human bodies despite obsessing over them constantly? You'd think if you love your biological sex so much, it would inspire curiosity about human sexuality, not blustering ignorance.

For the record, stamping your foot and going "it just is" is not science, no matter what topic you happen to be discussing.
I guarantee I know more about the actual biology of sex than you. I'm using actual information and science as opposed to wishes.

But hey, if you want to bluster about and insult me, why don't you prove me wrong? Go find a human who has impregnated themselves with sperm and ova produced by their own body. Or find me a human who has both a scrotal sac AND fallopian tubes. OR find me a single person anywhere on the planet that produces a sperg. Or a completely new gamete that is neither sperm nor ova. Go ahead, I'll wait.
Meanwhile duckbilled platypuses don't lay eggs because they are mammals. Also quantum physics doesn't exist because it doesn't neatly simplify into our previous understanding of subatomic physics.
 
Why is it "gender-critical" people manage to know so little about the biology human bodies despite obsessing over them constantly?
Pick a body part, organ, or function and search for sex differences. There’s a lot. Five million years of sexually dimorphic evolution will do that. And the sex binary is much older than that. Feeling uncomfortable in one’s body doesn’t change that. It’s the gender cultist who are the flat earthers.
Okay, the brain. The most important organ (after skin?) in the body. Please tell us the differences between men and women in the brain... specifically. Then you can move on to describing where in my brain that makes me specifically attracted to Asian women.
Generally speaking, male brains are larger (a result of their heads being larger). That said, however, there are also differences in the "wrinkliness" and the proportion of white matter to grey matter. None of those differences are predictive however, as the degree of overlap between the distributions makes those distinctions irrelevant.

What we do have are differences in the parts of the brain that are responsible for sexual attraction, sexual signaling, reproductive behavior, and some instinctive behaviors. The problem here is that we can't tell which of those differences are innate structural differences, which are differences do to exposure to different hormones, and which are learned differenced resulting from the brain being highly plastic.

Your attraction to asian women is nothing more than a predilection. I happen to like nutmeg and tarragon. We all have preferences.

At the end of the day, aside from size, there are no meaningful differences between the brains of males and females of the human species.

There are, however, differences in our skeletal structures, in our muscle attachment points, and in our reproductive anatomy. And while there is a large amount of variation in size and shape of secondary sexual characteristics among people of the same sex... there's very near no overlap in those secondary sexual characteristics between sexes.
 
People do not produce exclusively sperms or eggs. Some produce both.
This is false. No humans produce BOTH. At the very most extreme edge of things, you might have a mosaic or chimera who has both testicular and ovarian tissue - but even if you overlook that this is a mixture of two individuals, they cannot simultaneously produce both sperm and ova. The level of testosterone required to produce sperm cells is toxic to ova. The level of estrogen required to maintain viable ova precludes the production of sperm.
You're not correct. Here's a Wiki, documenting the fact that there are true hermaphroditic individuals, at least some of whom are capable of reproducting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_...s referred to,containing both types of tissue.

Some species of animals do not have sex genes and temperature affects sex in some species.
 
Why is it "gender-critical" people manage to know so little about the biology of human bodies despite obsessing over them constantly? You'd think if you love your biological sex so much, it would inspire curiosity about human sexuality, not blustering ignorance.

For the record, stamping your foot and going "it just is" is not science, no matter what topic you happen to be discussing.
I guarantee I know more about the actual biology of sex than you. I'm using actual information and science as opposed to wishes.

But hey, if you want to bluster about and insult me, why don't you prove me wrong? Go find a human who has impregnated themselves with sperm and ova produced by their own body. Or find me a human who has both a scrotal sac AND fallopian tubes. OR find me a single person anywhere on the planet that produces a sperg. Or a completely new gamete that is neither sperm nor ova. Go ahead, I'll wait.
No human has ever fertilized themselves. However, there are humans who produce both egg and sperm and at least some individuals have reproduced.

In animal species, hermaphrodites avoid fertilizing themselves.

I read a lot, too. I'd be very interested in knowing what your academic qualifications are with regards to human reproduction, embryonic development, and genetic expression.
 
Why is it "gender-critical" people manage to know so little about the biology human bodies despite obsessing over them constantly?
Pick a body part, organ, or function and search for sex differences. There’s a lot. Five million years of sexually dimorphic evolution will do that. And the sex binary is much older than that. Feeling uncomfortable in one’s body doesn’t change that. It’s the gender cultist who are the flat earthers.
Okay, the brain. The most important organ (after skin?) in the body. Please tell us the differences between men and women in the brain... specifically. Then you can move on to describing where in my brain that makes me specifically attracted to Asian women.
Generally speaking, male brains are larger (a result of their heads being larger). That said, however, there are also differences in the "wrinkliness" and the proportion of white matter to grey matter. None of those differences are predictive however, as the degree of overlap between the distributions makes those distinctions irrelevant.
Thanks. I was talking about the brain and what it does, not what it looks like.
What we do have are differences in the parts of the brain that are responsible for sexual attraction, sexual signaling, reproductive behavior, and some instinctive behaviors. The problem here is that we can't tell which of those differences are innate structural differences, which are differences do to exposure to different hormones, and which are learned differenced resulting from the brain being highly plastic.
Interesting... so it sounds like the answer is "we have no clue". So when talking genders, it seems kind of stupid to shoehorn male and female based on everything about the human body, except what is going on in the most IMPORTANT part (as in by like several magnitudes) of the body.
Your attraction to asian women is nothing more than a predilection. I happen to like nutmeg and tarragon. We all have preferences.
I suppose if we want to reduce our massively complicated neurological system into a Facebook JPG meme, that might work. But in reality, my mind is reacting to stimuli and it is firing off a particular reaction. That isn't preference, that is a neurological fingerprint that has a physical reason behind it. Us not understanding such things doesn't make it okay to handwave and ignore it as merely a "preference".
 
I read a lot, too. I'd be very interested in knowing what your academic qualifications are with regards to human reproduction, embryonic development, and genetic expression.
In all that learning do you have examples of any mammal that can change its sex?
 
I read a lot, too. I'd be very interested in knowing what your academic qualifications are with regards to human reproduction, embryonic development, and genetic expression.
In all that learning do you have examples of any mammal that can change its sex?
Today on qualifications, we discuss why they matter and their significance, especially in attempts to try and mask that you know you are full of it. In the post above you'll notice a qualification added regarding biology, but only of mammals, and excluding the rest of the animal kingdom. This is done in a desperate attempt to hide the fact they themselves know that there are animals that are indeed capable of doing this, but hope no one will notice the smokescreen and how they are arguing against a concept they know is actually true.
 
So when talking genders, it seems kind of stupid to shoehorn male and female based on everything about the human body, except what is going on in the most IMPORTANT part (as in by like several magnitudes) of the body.
What the hell does it matter what’s going on in someone’s head? You either have a male or female body. When you see an attractive Asian woman, do you care how she self identifies? That like saying you read Playboy for the articles.
 
...there are ONLY two sexes. This is scientific reality.
No, it really isn't. It's not even particularly difficult to find exceptions. But there's none so blind as those who will not see.

"Scientific Reality" is reality as we observe it to be, not as we guess, hypothesise, or desire it to be.

For any and all definitions of sex, there are observable exceptions to the two most common categories, that render your claim false.
 
This is done in a desperate attempt to hide the fact they themselves know that there are animals that are indeed capable of doing this, but hope no one will notice the smokescreen and how they are arguing against a concept they know is actually true.
This is so dumb. Some animals can fly. Some animals lay eggs. Some animals can regenerate missing body parts. Humans can’t.
 
Presenting that scientific reality as if it's just the "opinion" of some uppity women is flat-eartherism.
On the contrary; Presenting your opinion as if it's "scientific reality", without reference to the observations of reality that are an essential element of science, is flat-eartherism.

A single exception is sufficient to falsify your claim for any dichotomous definition of "sex"; And exceptions are easy to find (albeit fairly uncommon).
 
Presenting that scientific reality as if it's just the "opinion" of some uppity women is flat-eartherism.
On the contrary; Presenting your opinion as if it's "scientific reality", without reference to the observations of reality that are an essential element of science, is flat-eartherism.

A single exception is sufficient to falsify your claim for any dichotomous definition of "sex"; And exceptions are easy to find (albeit fairly uncommon).
But what does hermaphroditism have to do with transgenderism? And, of course, hermaphroditism just reenforces nature’s strict sex binary: no hermaphrodite has a third sex.
 
I read a lot, too. I'd be very interested in knowing what your academic qualifications are with regards to human reproduction, embryonic development, and genetic expression.
In all that learning do you have examples of any mammal that can change its sex?
Today on qualifications, we discuss why they matter and their significance, especially in attempts to try and mask that you know you are full of it. In the post above you'll notice a qualification added regarding biology, but only of mammals, and excluding the rest of the animal kingdom. This is done in a desperate attempt to hide the fact they themselves know that there are animals that are indeed capable of doing this, but hope no one will notice the smokescreen and how they are arguing against a concept they know is actually true.
Of course it's a qualification. Humans are not clownfish.
 
This is done in a desperate attempt to hide the fact they themselves know that there are animals that are indeed capable of doing this, but hope no one will notice the smokescreen and how they are arguing against a concept they know is actually true.
This is so dumb. Some animals can fly. Some animals lay eggs. Some animals can regenerate missing body parts. Humans can’t.
Then why did you ask in the first place?
 
This is done in a desperate attempt to hide the fact they themselves know that there are animals that are indeed capable of doing this, but hope no one will notice the smokescreen and how they are arguing against a concept they know is actually true.
This is so dumb. Some animals can fly. Some animals lay eggs. Some animals can regenerate missing body parts. Humans can’t.
Then why did you ask in the first place?
Because humans are mammals. Mammals cannot change their birth sex regardless of what’s going on in their heads. Everyone knows this. Using non-mammalian examples to say that humans can do things that they can’t is just sophistry.
 
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