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Harsh penalties approved for Florida state college employees who use restrooms that don't correspond with gender assigned at birth | CNN (www.cnn.com)

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[–] LassCalibur@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Most likely any attempt at specific, verifiable definitions would be insufficient for their fascistic purpose. A biologist, Forrest Valkai, covers well the complexity involved when defining the social construct of sexual differentiation in a measurable way in the video Sex and Sensibility. Hence, the laws reliance on "reproductive role" while simply assuming some unstated definition of "biological sex".