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[–] LazarusLong ago (edited ago)
Certainly completely unbiased is probably impossible, but I think there are many organizations doing a pretty honest job.
I was under the impression that a virus did not meet all 7 of the currently established criteria for life.
Science does have a long way to go as far as understanding the brain, but the results of
brainbrain/body gender can be quantified in a number of ways.Various aptitude tests for skills that are indicative to one gender or the other, hormone levels at various points in life, reflex testing, receptor density, size of sexually dimorphic brain structures, etc.
If I had to come up with a cut and dried definition of gender I would just make it a sliding scale between femaleness and maleness. Then let the results of a battery of the above tests determine where someone falls on that scale.
Maybe even defining the ranges of the scale from the body of all gathered results within a time period/location to allow for population based variations.
Then people could fight it out over where to put the line between "that's a man" and "that's a woman."
Maybe the understanding isn't advanced enough for something like that to be possible or practical.
Currently, I just go off how someone looks.
If they ask to be referred to as something else and aren't a dick about it, I generally oblige.
[–] voat-ist ago
As for the last line I agree. If you want me to call you a girl and you have nuts it's fine by me. But Don't go in the bathroom with my daughters.
A virus doesn't meet all 7. The big one is cell structure. But that is the fun thing. Biologists usually say 5 of 7 counts as "life." IIRC a virus solidly meets like 3. But scientists argue about it. This is the point. A well accepted reasoned definition that takes all our best information into account still doesn't account for some weird cases.
[–] LazarusLong ago (edited ago)
I can see that argument in certain cultures.
I have lived in places where there were no gender segregated bathrooms and it worked fine, but I'm not sure how well people would adapt to it in the US.
That being said, I can also see the point of view where a father might not want his completely passable transgender son->daughter camped out in the boy's locker room.