I do not believe in gender identity.

[SernieBanders]

There are two sexes: male and female. Occasionally, that matters.

There is no such thing as an innate gender identity—no internal essence that makes someone more inclined to wear dresses and sip wine, or football boots and down pints. Those are cultural stereotypes, not proof of some mystical gendered soul.

The idea of gender identity is sexist, misogynistic, and regressive. It reinforces outdated norms instead of challenging them. Women do not need an inner feeling of womanhood to be women. Men do not need a gender identity to be men. Sex is real. Stereotypes are not.

I hope with the flurry of cultural changes, legal challenges, scientific findings and executive orders in the last ~12 months, more people feel able to stand up and be counted, and say - No More.

Nothing in that article supports the assertion there is more than two sexes.

Sex is binary by definition. You either are intended to make small, or large, gametes, that's it. One or thew other. Every DSD sufferer, is male or female. they are not intersex.

> they are not a third sex or both sexes
You need to educate yourself before spouting such rubbish
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/16324-intersex

It's still not true - the definition of the word sex means you make small or large gametes, one or the other. No DSDs place you outside of those two binaries. thats it.

> We ALL have an immutable sex.
Not all, no
What's an XXY or XYY whose male genitalia is internal and descends at puberty? or who exhibits female genitalia but whose ovaries are vestigial and are reabsorbed during their late teens?
They were biologically what? Male? Female? And are now?

> There are two sexes and no-one ever changes theirs
Wrong twice in one sentence
Well done for not being educated in basic human biology

Do tell us about any human being who has ever changed their sex.

We'll wait.

Oh dear.

Human sex is binary and immutable.

Basic mammalian biology.

XXY is MALE
XYY is also MALE

This is well known biological facts.

> you absolutely do know what sex your child is and what hormones will be released at puberty.
Ok, tell me what sex an XXY or XYY or XX(male) is
And what hormones they will produce

Both MALE

We know this. Doctors know this.

What hormones they produce is irrelevant because that does not dictate someones sex.

Gametes do.

You understanding is quite incorrect

Tell us why, with a cogent argument citing verifiable trustworthy sources please.

Yeah, you don't understand the causes of gender dysphoria at all
Fortunately, there's a wealth of information for anyone with the intelligence to seek it out and read it
www.news-medical.net/health/Causes-of-Gender-Dysphoria.aspx

https://www.news-medical.net/health/Causes-of-Gender-Dysphoria.aspx
Just one of the many scientific articles on the subject that 5 seconds searching will uncover

Instead of repeating the same falsehoods and posting “evidence” that doesn’t even vaguely report whatever you think it does, why don’t you read the very specific counter to your posts? The actual scientific evidence that absolutely discredits your assertions?

Anyone actually reading the thread realises that your position is both false and unscientific (because the real science has been explained). So, dropping in the same nonsense at various points in the discussion helps no-one.

@CautiousLurker01 congratulations to your daughter on her uni place. I hope she has the time of her life. She is lucky to have you as her mum.
And thank you for posting on here. I imagine that it would have been so much easier for you to shut the door on this traumatic period in your family’s life.
Thank you for sharing.
There have been times when I think it would be so much easier to affirm my child. Supporting without affirming is the hardest thing in the world. But until I can find evidence that that is the best long-term outcome for my child then I cannot take that risk and we remain stuck in a kind of hell.

Why don;t you explain it as you understand it and relate it to the points other people have listed here about why they DO NOT believe in gender identity?

> we are born with a Penis or a vagina
Or both or neither
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/16324-intersex
But those people don't fit in your narrowminded little world, do they?

Notice how no one replied when I asked if they remembered "The XYY Man" ?

A thriller series from the 70s.

Notice how it tackled the "gender identity" of the protagonist.

I would go as far to say that if you are spouting off about gender identity in 2025, and you have no knowledge of this piece of prime time TV, then it's possible that you may possibly not know quite as much as you thought you did.

If anyone wants to write "A study of gender identity treatment in the media in the 1970s" for their dissertation or thesis, then they can have that for free.

(I watched with DM who thought it was a good yarn, but a load of old nonsense)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_XYY_Man

> People with DSDs are still ALWAYS either MALE or FEMALE.
And you are still ALWAYS WRONG or WRONGER

This link is terrible - it took 3 paragraphs to encounter a scientifically inaccurate statement presented as fact

"It is seen that during early pregnancy, all unborn babies are female because only the female sex chromosome (or the X chromosome) that is inherited from the mother being the active one."

That, is not true. Sex is absolutely decided at conception, as soon as new DNA is made.

All unborn babies, at any age, are not at all female. It's just not manifested. Genetically they are always the sex they will be, already

Anne Fausto-Sterling s suggestion that the prevalence of intersex might be as high as 1.7% has attracted wide attention in both the scholarly press and the popular media. Many reviewers are not aware that this figure includes conditions which most clinicians do not recognize as intersex, such as Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome, and late-onset adrenal hyperplasia. If the term intersex is to retain any meaning, the term should be restricted to those conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female. Applying this more precise definition, the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%, almost 100 times lower than Fausto-Sterling s estimate of 1.7%.

So true prevalence of intersex is 0.018% yet its a common argument whenever biological sex is discussed almost as if trans supporters see this as a trump card. It really isn't you know.

Fact is that MOST people who described themselves as trans were born biological male or female. HTH

No.

People with DSDs are always male or female.

Please find me the DSD where someone is not either male or female?

Anyway, disorders / differences of sexual development are nothing to do with gender identity.

They have been introduced by GI ideologues in an attempt to persuade people that "sex is a spectrum' and therefore a person who is biologically male can be female and vice versa.

Which is anti-scientific nonsense.

absolutely. its all about clouding the issue