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This is so important. Even if Trump comes in and wrecks everything, the work is there, and the work will become less memory holed because of the prominence of the people presenting it. The information is already out there, and there will be those who will preserve it until their last breath to ensure it's not forgotten.
We've got to stop allowing people to pretend that biology is in any way binary and this kind of important work helps that happen.
Anyway yeah this is pretty huge and honestly a bit unexpected. Admiral Rachel Levine, MD kicks so much ass for this.
Biology is not binary? Social construct is not binary, I get that, but reproduction pretty much gates biology as binary (in mammals anyways)
Edit: the key word being BIOLOGY. Gonads vs Ovaries.
I understand that some people have both or none, I am not claiming that intersex people don't exist. But good luck reproducing a mammel without a gonads and an ovary, a binary system.
Geesh, take a biology class people
https://www.ohchr.org/en/sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity/intersex-people
Biology is absolutely not binary.
And 1 in 4500 births have atypical genitalia.
In the US, in 2023, there were about 3.6 million births. That means that ~800 babies were born this way that year. There's probably 50,000 people in the US right now who were born with atypical genitalia.