{"id":119819,"date":"2023-03-30T12:29:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T16:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=119819"},"modified":"2023-03-30T18:15:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T22:15:06","slug":"pd-jay-richards-why-states-must-define-sex-precisely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=119819","title":{"rendered":"(PD) Jay Richards&#8211;Why States Must Define Sex Precisely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the good news: there are several ways to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aapsonline.org\/aaps-statement-on-gender-affirming-care-for-minor-children\/\">define sex precisely<\/a>. It just takes some work. Any good definition will capture the central concept of biological sex\u2014the orientation of male and female bodies for reproduction. It will also refer to what happens under normal development while accounting for disorders. Finally, it will accommodate the fact that organisms have and do different things at different stages of development.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, a female human embryo does not menstruate or get pregnant\u2014nor does a woman who has passed through menopause. A male embryo very early in development does not (yet) have a penis or testes.<\/p>\n<p>The definitions provided in Montana\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/leg.mt.gov\/bills\/2023\/billpdf\/SB0458.pdf\">SB 458<\/a>, for instance, account for both disorders and development. A human male is,\u00a0<em>minimally<\/em>, a member of the human species who, under normal development, produces relatively small, mobile gametes\u2014sperm\u2014at some point in his life cycle, and has a reproductive and endocrine system oriented around the production of that gamete. A human female is,\u00a0<em>minimally<\/em>, a member of the human species who, under normal development, produces relatively large, relatively immobile gametes\u2014ova\u2014at some point in her life cycle, and has a reproductive and endocrine system oriented around the production of that gamete.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase \u201cunder normal development\u201d does a great deal of work in these definitions. We grasp the existence of distinct animal taxa (species, genera, families, classes, etc.) intuitively. \u201cHuman\u201d refers to our species (<em>Homo sapiens<\/em>). We also distinguish abnormal from normal development without much effort.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2023\/03\/88391\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why States Must Define Sex Precisely <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrJayRichards?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DrJayRichards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OCS8bVPq00\">https:\/\/t.co\/OCS8bVPq00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PublicDiscourse\/status\/1641511345701937177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the good news: there are several ways to\u00a0define sex precisely. It just takes some work. Any good definition will capture the central concept of biological sex\u2014the orientation of male and female bodies for reproduction. 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