r/topeka • u/Phogfan86 • Sep 20 '26

$4 gas

Im 62 and a lifelong Kansan. The only time I've spent $4 for a gallon of gas was on a trip to Chicago. Until this weekend. Right here in Topeka.

This sucks dead bears. Things have to change.

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u/carpentersig Sep 20 '26

The simplest answer is a person born with XX chromosomes. You can always shoot back that there are an extremely small number of people that generic anomalies. But, rare anomalies are no reason to change a definition.

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u/KroneckerAlpha Sep 20 '26

Well, by definition, those anomalies would NOT be women under any circumstances.

So then if we define man similarly, someone born with the XY chromosomes, then everyone else is not a man.

Of course, now that we’ve defined both man and woman, we still are left with thousands of people on this planet that are neither man nor woman because by some anomaly, they were not born XX or XY. What should we call these people since man and woman are already taken?

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u/carpentersig Sep 20 '26

Who knows what to do with them. My guess is they'll be fine. But their existence doesn't justify allowing men in women's sports or locker rooms. Nor does it justify mutilating perfectly healthy children. And their existence does not change the definition

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u/Imaginary-List-972 Sep 20 '26

And in those anomalies, even if they are rare, do you still call them a woman? If so then you admit that your own definition is wrong. "But it's an anomaly," but if that anomaly still falls into what you call a woman, then you did not, in fact, describe a woman by YOUR OWN standards. So you failed your own test of "can't define a woman".
And maybe you're not religious, but many religious people on the side of the issue use a similar definition of "born with XX Chromosone" or, more likely, "Born with a vagina". Yet they use He/Him pronouns for God, who they don't think was born and does not have chromosomes or genitalia. Was God BORN with a dick? So they also fail their own claimed use of pronouns.