*The RFU's draft policy is a document that displayed an unbelievable level of policy capture to the extent that it invented insane new definitions of male and female:
Male: refers to a person who produces testosterone at puberty and adolescence.
Female: refers to a person who does not produce male levels of testosterone at puberty*
Wow. They have, of course, defined male first and then female in relation the male definition- as a straightforward "non-male" in fact. So far, so depressingly familiar.
But look closer. All people (with possibly some ultra rare exceptions)- produce some testosterone from being an 8 week old foetus onwards. In fact all mammals- nay, all Chordata- produce testosterone. So, because they do not specify a level, their definition of male is: all humans past 8 weeks of gestation. Their definition of female is in reference to the male definition and therefore does not include any humans (or mammals) beyond an 8 week foetus. So pretty much literally subhuman- good to know that we are not only an inferior species, nor merely beneath the class that encompasses mammals to amphibians, we're in some completely different sub fucking phylum as well.