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Chromosome Count: Who Gets to Decide Which Athletes Are ‘Feminine Enough’ to Compete? (msmagazine.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Indeed, it's why I get so tired of the expression "it's basic biology" when there's a discussion about gender purity. Biology is so bad at doing binary expressions of anything that trying to create a binary classification of gender expression fails every time. There was a fantastic video I watched of a guy trying to create an iPhone settings panel of gender expression to capture all the myriad ways that gender is expressed in humans. He borrows a phrase one of the researchers used in their research, that gender is a constellation, rather than a spectrum.

https://youtu.be/cnshnUk-UKU