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Fertility is NOT a prerequisite for legal adulthood. I'm not sure how you got that from what I said. Jarhyn's argument is essentially that it's perfectly fine to block puberty in human children, and that there's no risk or problem with giving children cross-sex hormones instead of the ones...

Trimming, hopefully for clarity This is backwards - two different sized gametes is the driver of male and female reproductive systems. Fertility within either of those reproductive systems doesn't make the systems into something else. Freemartins are still female cattle, they are not male...

Sexual reproduction, not sexuality

You're cobbling together 1) a wikipedia article about eunuchs in China, 2) an article about when to castrate male cattle to raise as steers for food and 3) Hijra in india. On the other hand, there's an entire field of biology, wherein the attainment of an adult form of the species DOES rely on...

The process of an individual mammal developing from juvenile to adult is something you consider to be "trivial", but a feeling inside your brain is something you consider to be "nontrivial". We have very different understandings of what those terms mean.

By your logic, there's a physical difference between a catholic and an atheist. We can put six random people in a line-up, and then we can observe their physical bodies, and identify which of them are the catholics and which are the atheists.

JFC, you're stretching the concept of a phenotype so far into po-mo ridiculousness that I don't know how you can pull it off. Are you having a laugh and this is all a troll job?

Are you of the opinion that "dating" is a physical characteristic of a person, akin to height, eye color, and melanin content? What part of the body is the "dating" part?

Sure, sure, it's my "unqualified opinion" that I have a vagina and my spouse has a penis. It's all just totally made up. And infants are placed under cabbage leaves by storks when the gods have decided to bless someone with a baby. If I roll my eyes any harder, they're going to pop out of...

Yes, absolutely. I am quite blatantly claiming that if you put a straight male and a gay male next to each other, you will not be able to point out a physical difference between them. What do you - seriously - think the physical difference between a heterosexual person and a homosexual person is?

Why are you assuming without evidence or support that the female and male reproductive systems in anisogamous species have NOT been subject to either positive or negative selection? Tell that to statistics. Your insistence on viewing the term "normal" through the lense of morality is your own...

They aren't invalid. Your faith insists that they're invalid, but nobody else is required to convert to your religious views.

Jarhyn is also the one who insisted that sexual orientation was a "genital fetish" and implied that everyone should try to unlearn their sexual bigotry if they aren't interested in having a roll in the hay with someone of the sex they aren't attracted to.

If you give a female juvenile testosterone during adolescence, she's not going to have a male puberty. She isn't male, and she isn't going to experience the physical maturation that testosterone prompts in MALES. We aren't Mx. Potato Head, with plug and play parts to be chosen at will.

It's nice to know that you believe my epilepsy is just a normal variation, and should totally just be accepted as it is and celebrated as a source of diversity. On the other hand, I'm inclined to accept my doctor's view of it being a disorder, and thus to seek treatment for it so I don't...

There's a lot in your post that is errant, but let's just stick with this one thing, since it's fundamental. Most of our genes are genes that aren't actively being used, don't code for anything, or are repetitious sets of genes with no effect. Something around 90% ish, though the actual value...

Karyotype does not define sex. Whether a person "feels themselves to be" male or female shouldn't have any bearing on whether or not they get to strip down in front of the opposite sex. Medically, yes, the presence of certain organs drives a lot of treatment. But as for society at large, I do...

What are the physical properties of homosexuality?

Well... you seem to have missed a bit. Jarhyn and a couple of others are trying to argue that sex in humans is a spectrum of complicated spectruminess, and that male and female aren't actually real things, or at least they're not binary things, and that within all of that somewhere somehow, a...

What the actual for realsies fuck are you talking about Toni? I've said nothing at all about sexual attraction here. None of what you've written here has anything at all to do with anything I've said. EVER.