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Re: Should transwomen be legally treated as women?
I present, here, a set of 20,001 points.
All but three of these points fall in the range of ±1.0
There are three points that are very far outside of that range. They make up approximately 0.015% of all the data.
Do the three outliers points tell us anything useful or relevant about the remaining 19,998 points?
I say that they do not. The 19,998 points are all defined by a simple, consistent rule. Out of 20,001 times this rule was applied, something “broke” thrice. Something happened that is abnormal, and is not relevant to what happened the other 19,998 times. They are not part of any continuum; they are defects, outside of the continuum.
It is not valid to say that what happened in those three abnormal cases has any bearing on what happens in the 19,998 normal cases, nor is it valid to try to define or understand the normal cases based on the abnormal outliers.
As far as human sexuality goes, the normal case is that a human (or any other mammal, for that matter) either has an XY chromosome pattern and “boy parts”, and is male, or else has an XX chromosome pattern and “girl parts”, and is female. That is an absolute, immutable, and undeniable biological fact, and the extremely rare abnormal outliers do not disprove it.
View attachment Outliers.zip
As provided multiple times, intersex beings provide a continuum. They have a combination or absence of X and Y chromosomes outside of the "standard."
I present, here, a set of 20,001 points.
All but three of these points fall in the range of ±1.0
There are three points that are very far outside of that range. They make up approximately 0.015% of all the data.
Do the three outliers points tell us anything useful or relevant about the remaining 19,998 points?
I say that they do not. The 19,998 points are all defined by a simple, consistent rule. Out of 20,001 times this rule was applied, something “broke” thrice. Something happened that is abnormal, and is not relevant to what happened the other 19,998 times. They are not part of any continuum; they are defects, outside of the continuum.
It is not valid to say that what happened in those three abnormal cases has any bearing on what happens in the 19,998 normal cases, nor is it valid to try to define or understand the normal cases based on the abnormal outliers.
As far as human sexuality goes, the normal case is that a human (or any other mammal, for that matter) either has an XY chromosome pattern and “boy parts”, and is male, or else has an XX chromosome pattern and “girl parts”, and is female. That is an absolute, immutable, and undeniable biological fact, and the extremely rare abnormal outliers do not disprove it.
View attachment Outliers.zip