How are the “two clear genders” supposed to work when there are people who (i) have XX chromosomes but look, to all appearances, male when naked (ii) have XY chromosomes but look, to all appearances, female when naked (iii) have a mixture of bodily features some of which are usually only found in males while others are usually only found in females, s.t. their overall appearance defies categorization?
What proportion of the population do these cover? If exceptions are exceptional, it does not matter, except to them, how or whether they are classified.
Ugh, yes, we are talking about a very small fraction of people. But this small (or a slightly larger but still small) fraction is the entire topic of this thread, AFAICT. If it doesn’t matter, then nothing said in this thread matters. Also, people are allowed to care about other people.
The thread is not just about these exceptions, but about everyone else changing everything they say about “male” and “female” to deal with the supposed puzzle of the existing notions being fuzzy around the edges. All notions are fuzzy around the edges. Making more boxes does not solve the problem, so far as there is one, of there being boxes.
I don’t know where are you getting “everyone else changing everything they say about male and female” from. AFAIU, the OP is talking about dealing with the “edge cases” by inventing a bunch of new categories for them. Which might or might not be a good idea, but it doesn’t seem to contradict the fact most people are cis and therefore unambiguously male/female.
How are the “two clear genders” supposed to work when there are people who (i) have XX chromosomes but look, to all appearances, male when naked (ii) have XY chromosomes but look, to all appearances, female when naked (iii) have a mixture of bodily features some of which are usually only found in males while others are usually only found in females, s.t. their overall appearance defies categorization?
What proportion of the population do these cover? If exceptions are exceptional, it does not matter, except to them, how or whether they are classified.
Ugh, yes, we are talking about a very small fraction of people. But this small (or a slightly larger but still small) fraction is the entire topic of this thread, AFAICT. If it doesn’t matter, then nothing said in this thread matters. Also, people are allowed to care about other people.
The thread is not just about these exceptions, but about everyone else changing everything they say about “male” and “female” to deal with the supposed puzzle of the existing notions being fuzzy around the edges. All notions are fuzzy around the edges. Making more boxes does not solve the problem, so far as there is one, of there being boxes.
I don’t know where are you getting “everyone else changing everything they say about male and female” from. AFAIU, the OP is talking about dealing with the “edge cases” by inventing a bunch of new categories for them. Which might or might not be a good idea, but it doesn’t seem to contradict the fact most people are cis and therefore unambiguously male/female.