re: Canadian baby 'first without gender designation' on health card

Canada is fricked. Has been for a while.

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Male : XX
Female : XY
Can't change that. That's genetic.

"Be a man, act like a man" etc are characteristics we ascribe to men, but are not characteristics were are innately born with. That's just us projecting our perception of norms (made up for social convenience and order) onto biological entities.

There is nothing about having two X chromosomes that says I was born not to wear a dress. I could where I dress if I wanted to and that won't change my chromosomes. I'll be acting like a "woman" but I'll never be a female, because I can't ever becoming a XX human being.

Its pretty simple

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And there we have it. People like strongsafety literally do not have even a basic grasp of genotype and how it determines phenotype.

101 course for you:

There are 46 chromosomes. 46/2 is 23. 23 pairs of chromosomes. Chromosomes are made up of chromatin-- condensed strands of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). DNA encodes your organic makeup (your GENOTYPE),which then DIRECTLY DETERMINES what your physical attributes will be (your PHENOTYPE).

The 23rd pair of chromosomes are the sex chromosomes.

They determine sex. Literally.

XY is male (not XX as you indicated in your post, read more please.)

XX is female. Females do NOT have a Y chromosome. In the simplest of terms: they do not therefore inherit the genetic blueprint for masculinity-- the SRY region of chromosome Y. I will not discuss more complex topics like epigenetics and gene activation with you, as you will not understand even the basic terminology. Suffice to say that SCIENTIFICALLY gender is IN FACT determined quite substantially and in no small part via one's genetic makeup.

TL,DR: people like strongsafety are very wrong, they do not understand simple concepts-- rather spewing some "tagline du jour" with words they don't comprehend, and science is most decidedly not on their side.

But it is not politically correct to point out their idiocy, because well that's just intolerant or something...