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Chris: "A prepubescent boy, an XY fetus, an adult rendered sterile by measles or castration, is still a male."

That depends crucially on how you define "male", on what you specify are the "necessary and sufficient conditions" to qualify as a member of the "male" category. Which you have yet to do.

Hilton and Company say those conditions are:

"... developed anatomies for producing either small or large gametes, regardless of their past, present, or future functionality ..."

https://twitter.com/FondOfBeetles/status/1207663359589527554

Seems a rather unscientific definition, at best, predicated on anything but "natural kinds":

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-kinds/

Maybe more importantly it conflicts with standard biological definitions published in reputable peer-reviewed biological journals. As opposed to the letter section of the UK Times ...

Chris: "What is the freakin' point of telling women over 45 that they aren't female anymore?"

What is the "freakin'" point of telling a transwoman that he's neither a female nor a woman? 🙄

Seems you -- and far too many others -- are more concerned about sparing people's "feelings" than in defending scientific, epistemological, and logical principles and facts. More engaged in the "deliberate distortion of scientific facts or theories for purposes that are deemed politically or socially desirable" than not:

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

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😂🤣🙄 After you Alphonse ...

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