>>15242968thought exercise. suppose somebody's cock is blown off. they were judged as male when they were registered by a nurse in the hospital at birth, but their entire genitals are blown off, replaced my a skin graft from what's left of the legs and a complex, space age system of colostomy bags and catheters allows them to live. they're naturally, not to put too fine a point on it, a twink, very feminine, long hair, very little natural facial or body hair growth, could easily pass as a cis woman and has always struggled with dysmorphia even before the incident
now, my question to you, is this person a man, or a woman? normally you lot would argue "oh but they have a penis so they're a man" but this person doesn't, nor do they have the secondary or tertiary characteristics of a "man". is it there chromosomes you are concerned about? if so, why? you would not even know unless you were testing them like some lab sample.
is somebody who was in this situation but was perfectly androgynous, toeing the line perfectly, simply considered both male and female until you get a blood sample, like schrodingers chromosome?
what about if it were 100 years ago, and the chromosome thing weren't an issue. what would this person be to you then? lets say they never even had the incident, they had a penis. is this person simultaneously male and female until the moment you personally see their penis? if you truly do not know, and never saw their penis, and they never gave a straight answer, what would this person be to you? there are intersex people born with chromosome that do not match their sexual characteristics yet, at a glance, clearly scan as male or female. so are chrromosomes unimportant?
it's like a ship of theseus, how many pieces of a woman need to be changed to become a man to you, and how many back? is it a binary where there is a moment where one becomes the other or is it a spectrum wherein one simply gets closer to one of two poles the more aspects are swapped?
