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You're still not providing any citations, why is that? Surely you can ask some of the people in field work that you run with.

I'm also not sure why you're so focused on Colin Wright when I provided other examples of people affirming the same stance, as previously stated. Take your pick, or provide citations of your own.

Do you have a particular example in mind for the South African hermaphrodites?





And you're still not addressing anything that I have asked of you

I'm literally asking you to get specific so we can talk about particulars, so I'm not sure where you're getting that from.

I don't really get the point of this dance you're doing. Why not just admit that you don't have anything to back your comments up?


Specifically, then, why does it suddenly recently matter that every human birth be classed as exlusively [M] or [F].

I'm old, I've been about biology for a long time, it's never been that way.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_ice is a cracking read. Good science.

We observe one predominent form of solid water most often in our environment - but other forms exist and frequency varies elsewhere.

There are literal tomes on disorders of sex development, it's a subject with decades of solid research history and centuris of literary reference.

"Strongly bimodal with some outliers" has been an ideal summary for a complex domain until ... recently.

What motivates you to shoehorn every birth into one of two boxes despite the theorectical and practical issues?


You're still not providing any citations, why is that?

It's not about what motivates me, it's about the scientific consensus in the field of biology. The same consensus that has remain unchanged for well over a century. I've provided citations affirming this consensus, and you've refused to back up your comments. Why not just admit that you're wrong?

EDIT: Rate limited by HN, so I guess we are done here. I'm not sure why you think prompting you to get specific about the group means being unaware of it. I'm rather disappointed in your bluster, it makes me wonder in retrospect if I've been baited into arguing with a bot.


> it's about the scientific consensus in the field of biology. The same consensus that has remain unchanged for well over a century.

What rot, even a casual perusual of literature will confirm debate.

> I've provided citations affirming this consensus

You've cited a single faction that have only recently surged across public communications.

The fact that you're claiming to be unaware of the debate, the history, the SA hermaphrodite group to whom I refered tells me a great deal.

I suspect we're done here.

For now I've a cluster of 12 tonne lego pieces to fit together and seal up, I'll check in later to see if you've any reflection on the actual politics and culture trappings about this matter that are driving the presentation of a factional PoV.

I look forward to some grown up adult comment, not any childish gotcha traps.




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