On the one hand, we encounter a lot of arguments about gender that seem, to me, to be philosophically bad. Maybe a good source of reasoning fallacies you might be able to spot in other contexts too,
On the other hand, the more I think about it, the less I care about the object level isue. It seems inevitable that there are going to be various sorts of statistical outliers and hard to classify cases, and really is it that big a deal?
I know one person who is intersex, and I know because they’re involved in right activism and they told me, Probably couldnt tell otherwise. Could well be xome other people I know are intersex and haven’t told me.Maybd they dont even know themselves, as it appears that this information was frequently witheld by doctors. Shrug.
Also: if you take gender as chromosomal sex, then (a) tye aforementioed person is totally genuinely both xx and xy because they have mosaic chromosomes; and (b) it seems really strange for your gender to sometimes be something that you, yourself, do not know,.
On the one hand, we encounter a lot of arguments about gender that seem, to me, to be philosophically bad. Maybe a good source of reasoning fallacies you might be able to spot in other contexts too,
On the other hand, the more I think about it, the less I care about the object level isue. It seems inevitable that there are going to be various sorts of statistical outliers and hard to classify cases, and really is it that big a deal?
I know one person who is intersex, and I know because they’re involved in right activism and they told me, Probably couldnt tell otherwise. Could well be xome other people I know are intersex and haven’t told me.Maybd they dont even know themselves, as it appears that this information was frequently witheld by doctors. Shrug.
Also: if you take gender as chromosomal sex, then (a) tye aforementioed person is totally genuinely both xx and xy because they have mosaic chromosomes; and (b) it seems really strange for your gender to sometimes be something that you, yourself, do not know,.