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  • In short: Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle is suing social media platform Giggle for Girls after she was excluded from the women-only app.
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A transgender woman who was excluded from a women-only social media app should be awarded damages because the app's founder has persistently denied she is a woman, a Sydney court has heard.

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Ms Tickle's photograph was determined to be a woman and she used the app's full features until September that year, when the account became restricted because the AI decision was manually overridden.

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[–] Random_German_Name@feddit.de -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So you are male even if you have a complete set of female sex organs and no male sex organs?

Literally the only way to determine 'male' or 'female' is a DNA test?

We've never been able to determine that before Flemming discovered chromosomes in the late 19th century?

That's really weird, because the etymology of the word male traces it back to the 14th century.

Now I'm not math expert, but I'm pretty sure 14 comes before 18.

[–] Random_German_Name@feddit.de -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So you are male even if you have a complete set of female sex organs and no male sex organs?

Biologically yes. At least according to my definition, but thats a different discussion.

Literally the only way to determine 'male' or 'female' is a DNA test?

Biologically, yes.

We've never been able to determine that before Flemming discovered chromosomes in the late 19th century?

In the 19th century we assumed, that social and biological gender are the same and ignored, that basically every definition of „male“ or „female“ at the time had exceptions and wasn‘t applicable to everyone.

That's really weird, because the etymology of the word male traces it back to the 14th century.

I am surprised it doesn‘t traces back even further. People believed in all kind of shit back then. Thats no argument.

Now I'm not math expert, but I'm pretty sure 14 comes before 18.

That doesn‘t make sense in the slightest. By that logic the earth is flat, because the first models of a flat earth were published before the first models of a round earth.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why do you get to unilaterally determine biological definitions when science is based on consensus?

Also, from where did you obtain your doctorate in genetics?

[–] Random_German_Name@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As you may have guessed I don‘t have a doctorate in genetics, just like you, I assume.

I don‘t get to determine biological definitions, but the definition of a biological sex, if such a thing exists, is still heavily debated in science. Therefore a consensus couldn‘t be reached so far. I just argued for the definition, that sounds the most logical to me. If you have other definitions or models I am open always open to learn.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

but the definition of a biological sex, if such a thing exists, is still heavily debated in science.

Maybe so, but your definition has nothing to do with said debate, which has moved far beyond it in terms of the science of genetics.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07238-8

https://www.sapiens.org/biology/biological-science-rejects-the-sex-binary-and-thats-good-for-humanity/

https://www.medicaldaily.com/challenging-gender-identity-biologists-say-gender-expands-across-spectrum-rather-323956

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi1188

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-science-of-biological-sex/

That's a small sampling.

Incidentally, if you do base biological sex solely on chromosomes, birds have four sexes. What shall we call the other two?

[–] Random_German_Name@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the sources.

The first article doesn‘t invalidate my thesis. It explains the difference between sex and gender.

The second article argues against the sex binary, which I never defended. I view „male“ and „female“ (in the context of the biological sex) as terms for a combination of chromosomes. The article still was absolutely worth reading, thanks.

The third article actually lists a bunch of stuff I didn‘t know about. I‘m going to look into that.