fnxtr
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Quote (fnxtr @ May 07 2015,17:51) | Quote (stevestory @ May 07 2015,12:03) | Quote (Learned Hand @ May 07 2015,01:00) | Quote (fnxtr @ May 06 2015,22:24) | If I had the inclination to waste photons over there, I'd ask what they make of my friend with CAIS, Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. She* had testes where her ovaries were supposed to be, a vagina but no uterus. Is she a boy or a girl?
*for simplicity. |
That kind of complexity wouldn't map cleanly to their intuitions and preconceptions. That would put very unwelcome pressure on their attempt to ground all morality in those intuitions. So I think they'd want to simplify the situation by defining her as whatever gender she most closely resembles. If she couldn't be easily pigeonholed as female, they'd want to shrink and limit the exception as much as possible. |
I would lay money the answer you'd get is "She's a female with birth defects". They'd declare chromosomes to be the acid test.
...in that particular case. If the chromosomes were botched, they'd declare sex characteristics to be the obvious acid test. It's all Special Pleading, case-by-case, by morons. |
In all the time I've known her I've never considered the chromosomal aspect... I should ask. I suspect androgen insensitivity means there is actually androgen being produced, though...
eta so I just asked. waiting for reply. |
Verbatim: Quote | Well, they're XY, and they say "ok, we don't pick up androgens, so we're going to skip all that that muscle building/body hair/external genitalia kind of thing (and apparently temperature regulation is not involved either, which makes me think that's why I get cold so quickly when I'm sitting still) |
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