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Things like that get parroted as 'common sense' so often by conservatives and our brains tend to start ignoring it as obviously false. Then it becomes easy to not notice the same phrasing in other contexts, since we are used to actively dismissing that kind of bullshit.

"Biological male" is a meaningless term

I hate being that guy, but that's false on a number of levels. If it was meaningless, hormone treatments and puberty blockers wouldn't be something ever needed as part of treatment for dysphoria or transistioning.

There's different bone structure signs often used in identification of cadavers and fossils. Different natural hormonal balances effect body growth and muscle development. They effect health risk factors and medical treatment in emergencies. Medical professionals don't ask about biological sex just because they want to trigger someone's dysphoria, they ask because it has measurable effects on treatment options.

There are measurable, quantifiable differences that can't be hand waved away by the idea that someone is merely assigned a gender at birth. To claim otherwise is to claim that people requiring medical intervention for their dysphoria are faking or overemphasizing the necessity for them, and that simply changing their clothes should be enough. Biological sex is something that unfortunately exists outside of the purely social contstructs around gender and gender presentation.

I don't have a solution in regards to the sports competition thing, and I hate with every fiber of my being that this shit has become a rallying cry for transphobes, but ignoring facts about the biological reality of sexual dipmorphism is denying that people can even have a mismatch between their biological sex and gender.

I understand the feeling that it doesn't matter in nearly every situation in life, but when it comes to medicine and body development, if biological sex didn't exist or matter than how could anyone need anything more than declaring their pronouns and changing how they dress?

It's possible to go too far and end up in a place that deny the realities that cause dysphoria in the first place, and you're there.

Yeah, sometimes it feels that way.

piedfed is a very good lemmy alternative using the same network. See this our very thread on piefed. It has more features and is faster.

"allowing biological men to compete in women's sports at the Olympics"

If you don't see how this person is explicitly calling trans women "biological men," congrats on being in the 54%

Yes

Of course, that depends on if the Komissar has the same opinions on what is considered misogyny as "you" (read: reasonable people). It could just as easily be poorly enforced as well enforced and frankly my money's always on the former with them.