Summary

Representative Sarah McBride, the first out trans congresswoman, criticized Donald Trump’s executive order defining gender as strictly male or female.

McBride points out that biologically all embryos develop as female until the SRY gene activates weeks after conception.

The order, which ties gender to reproductive cells at conception, unintentionally categorizes all humans as female from conception based on biological facts.

McBride’s remarks highlight scientific flaws in the policy.

  • @[email protected]
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    -411 days ago

    I bet you throw an absolute fit at anti vaxxers, and yet here you are, thinking politics defines the reality when you want it to, same as.

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      11 days ago

      I don’t think science is political. Neither are facts. The fact is that all human embryos develop as female until triggered to become male. Defining gender as immutable and at conception thusly defines every human as female. There is no shortage of conditions where genes get turned on and off, chromosomes get duplicated or damaged, and it affects what sex characteristics are developed. Defining sex at conception is entirely a political act, and without merit or basis in science or reality.

      FYI, you can go back and delete your posts anytime.

      • @[email protected]
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        “I don’t think science is political” It is very, very obvious you do, otherwise you wouldn’t “know” this much and be intentionally ignoring the fact that sex selected artificial insemination of sperm (not embryo) exists. You’re choosing wordiness and obsufacation instead of a real argument. I was plain, you should try it.

        FYI, You can shut your politician ass up anytime.

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          …ignoring the fact that sex selected artificial insemination of sperm…

          Common misconception. We say it’s sex selected, but it’s actually chromosome selected, and the criteria is chromosomes that determine sex characteristics.

          Regardless, the order as written does not define sex as the presence or absence of the Y chromosome in humans. It defines it as “what type of reproductive cell (based on size of all things) a zygote would produce if unaltered at the time of conception”. At that time, without any other hormone changes, or activation/deactivation of genes affecting sex characteristics, the resulting organism would produce eggs instead of sperm.

          To make a long story shorter. Intersex people exist, and infertile people exist. What sex would they be, based on this XO? As written, there are only 2 options, and neither apply to those people.

          Also, this…

          …fact that sex selected artificial insemination of sperm (not embryo) exists.

          … doesn’t actually exist. Looks like you are using a misunderstanding of science politically.

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              No. It’s not. Insemination of SPERM is not a thing that exists. Sperm is what you inseminate with! You have literally 0 ideas what you are talking about, even when I put it in fucking bold for you.

                • @Bytemeister
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                  28 days ago

                  You didn’t even read the fucking article did you.

                  First of all, from the article’s Methods section…

                  In the procedures of the flow cytometric method, X‐chromosome‐bearing sperm and Y‐chromosome‐bearing sperm were fluorescently stained, separated from each other by analyzing the difference in the DNA content,

                  And here is what I said…

                  Common misconception. We say it’s sex selected, but it’s actually chromosome selected, and the criteria is chromosomes that determine sex characteristics.

                  So the article absolutely backs up my point.

                  Second… From the Wikipedia page on Insemination…

                  Insemination is the introduction of sperm (in semen) into a female or hermaphrodite’s reproductive system in order to fertilize the ovum through sexual reproduction

                  Sperm is not the the thing that gets inseminated. It’s the thing that is inseminated into something else. Yes I know this is pedantic point, but if you don’t even understand that, after I put it in fucking bold for you twice, then any credibility you have on mamilian reproduction is basically on the same level as trump.