powerstruggle, powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works

Stop focusing on her. Stop participating in the online hate mob that exists to distract from class issues. Do something useful with your life.

You’re spewing lies. Please stop. Khelif admitted to being male. That’s indisputable. If you’re confused, please reread the article and above diagrams. It’s made to educate ignorant people. You can become educated.

Giving birth is one way of knowing. Please stop acting mentally disabled.

There’s several topics here. Explaining her views is responding to this

She’s coming from a place of “trans bad” then finding an excuse for it (protecting women)

She wants to protect women. She thinks that trans women aren’t women. It doesn’t start out with “trans bad”. It starts out with “protecting women” + “woman is defined by sex”. That’s all there is to it. If you don’t like it, convince her that the gender-based definition is better.

The whole “people who menstruate” thing is peak idpol and designed to waste our time arguing about it instead of developing class consciousness. You’re part of the problem. If we spent half the time wasted on this guillotining the ruling class we’d live in a better world already where people who menstruate are materially better off in every way.

You’re really trying here, but still no. There are many easy ways to determine sex. Having a child is one of them. Your argument that most people don’t know their sex is wrong.

Sex is empirically verifiable. Gender is not. Laws and rules based on sex can be enforced without bias. If you think laws shouldn’t be based on empirical facts, advocate for change.

This is all a digression from the fact that Khelif is self-admittedly male. If you think Khelif should be able to compete in women’s leagues regardless then convince the sport authorities to change the rules away from sex.

Other way around. Khelif’s mother knows what her own sex is. She gave birth to Khelif. Only one sex is capable of that in humans

You don’t have to agree with her worldview, but it’s overall coherent. There are situations in which sex and gender rights are in tension with each other. She thinks that when they conflict, sex-based rights win out. You think that gender-based rights win out.

She cares that women have sex-specific places, like women’s rape shelters. She views “women” as a sex-based definition, and these spaces as a sex-based right. She does not think that anyone who is biologically male, regardless of their gender, is a woman. If someone who is biologically male wants access to one of those spaces, she objects not because of their gender, but because of their sex.

This is not a defense of her views, just an explanation of why she sees it as protecting women. For trans women that need help, she likely thinks “that sucks but not a problem for women to solve”.

because it says “You are not a real woman.”

Well, no. Some women don’t menstruate, but a sex-based definition doesn’t exclude them from being “real women”. They’re just women who don’t menstruate.

I take it you accept the biological reality. It’s actually the case that most people know their sex. Anyone that has had a child knows what their sex is.

It’s true that in a lot of cases, sex isn’t particularly important. That’s OK! But sometimes it matters, like in elite sports. Athletes have to go through many invasive testing procedures to compete, and including a simple, noninvasive sex test is not a burden.

J.K. Rowling views it as an attack on women, because it denies women’s hard-won sex-based rights. These rights include women’s spaces that exclude men, such as rape/crisis shelters, changing rooms, sports. She uses a sex-based definition of “woman” unlike the new gender-based definition. You don’t agree with her and that’s fine, but that’s why she views it as protecting women’s rights.

A sex-based definition clarifies the “people who menstruate” conversation, because only women can menstruate. Some women don’t, but they’re still women, because their sex is not defined by whether or not they menstruate.

Glad to help!

You’re suffering from some common misconceptions, namely that genitalia is how sex is defined. It’s not! Sex is defined entirely by gametes, because no other definition makes sense across the animal kingdom. The response to all of your questions is, “What gametes do they produce or are organized around producing?”.

Chromosomes are how sex is determined in humans, but not how sex is defined. Sex is not defined by sex characteristics. Other species have different sex determination systems, such as the ambient temperature determining the sex of a fetus. Trying to define sex by chromosomes for those species just wouldn’t make sense!

To answer your questions for persons A & B, please consult these handy charts:

https://theparadoxinstitute.org/articles/sex-development-charts

You will notice that each viable DSD has male or female listed, because their sex is not ambiguous. Person A would likely have CAIS and therefore be male

Person B would likely be have XX male syndrome and also be male

Person C doesn’t exist, as you’re imagining; you’re suffering from another common misconception. Humans aren’t born with fully functional reproductive organs of both sexes. Some species do have that! They have body plans where that is a normal part of development, and you will simultaneously find healthy males, females, and hermaphrodites co-existing (or males+hermaphrodites, or other combinations). Keep in mind that those species still have two sexes, they just have individuals that are male, female, or both sexes (sequentially or simultaneously)

Humans are what’s known as gonochoric, because we don’t have that. You can find humans born with Ovotesticular syndrome, but that still isn’t “produces mature gametes of both types”. It’s “maybe produces gametes of one type, and has a bit of non-functional tissue of the other gamete type, known as streak tissue”. Their bodies are still organized around producing one gamete type or the other.

There are two sexes, because there are exactly two types of gametes in anisogamous species. No more, no less. Note that you’ll often see mating types confused with sex, but those are not sexes. Those are isogamous species and interesting, but irrelevant to this conversation.

I hope that helped!

You’ve confused gender and sex. Please educate yourself. I’ll help!

What makes someone male or female is the type of gametes their body is organized around producing.

Let’s start with that. Can you acknowledge your previous ignorance now that you have become slightly more educated?

Did you go into a fugue state as you read this part, or just felt like lying to everyone?

Khelif confirmed she has the SRY gene, located on the Y chromosome that indicates masculinity.

Some male babies are born with ambiguous genitalia, and get incorrectly assigned female at birth. They are raised “as a girl” in the gender sense, while still being biologically male. They are not trans. No amount of being raised “as a girl” changes their sex. Khelif is one of these people. Khelif is male.

You don’t even understand the basics of what you’re trying to argue about. Please, for everyone’s sake, educate yourself before polluting the Fediverse.

It remains true that Khelif is self-admittedly biologically male, despite your wish that reality weren’t so

What criticisms do you have that aren’t histrionics?

They’re not clear at all. They’re histrionics. People don’t bother reading what she wrote. They read someone’s shit take worst possible interpretation of what she wrote

Yes, it is

Lemmy unreasonably hates her because she’s a successful woman that won’t nicely shut up and know her place. Misogyny runs deep here. Nobody will provide you with justification for the hyperbole in the OP because it doesn’t exist.

Imane Khelif is biologically male and has said so directly:

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/sports/article/2026/02/05/boxer-imane-khelif-reveals-she-took-hormone-treatment-before-paris-olympics_6750171_9.html

People really want to hate on J.K. Rowling for that, but she was 100% correct.