I just discovered this video about sex from a genetic perspective, and I think people should watch it.

Sex organs are a biological reality.

Genetics, neurology, and endocrinology are also biological realities.

Gender is a term from linguistics. It is an abstract concept. What biological reality should be the tie-breaker when deciding someone's gender is a value judgment about colloquial semantics. It's ultimately not the sort of question science can answer.

And no matter how you slice it, biological reductionism doesn't help resolve most of the controversies surrounding gender. Because for instance, you can't expect a person to show a doctor's note from an endocrinologist to get into a public restroom any more than you can expect them to show their genitals. It still comes down to a value judgment about to what extent one should feel obliged to take a person's word for their gender, versus to what extent one is entitled to one's own judgment call about a person's gender. Few people are truly hardline one way or the other if you prod them with enough edge cases.

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