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nhod · 2026-04-17T04:30:21 1776400221

Gender is mutable. Sex is determined by genetics, though in a handful of creatures, sex could be considered mutable.

margalabargala · 2026-04-17T04:45:14 1776401114

You're right, but there was an article on here in the last week about genetic therapy correcting Down Syndrome.

I wonder how long before sex does actually become mutable.

hackable_sand · 2026-04-17T05:58:33 1776405513

You can change sex

And people can be born intersex

Your data is wrong

Saline9515 · 2026-04-17T08:01:46 1776412906

The fact that some people can be born with 6 fingers doesn't mean that saying "a human hand has 5 fingers" is generally false.

duskdozer · 2026-04-17T13:12:43 1776431563

It also means you can't use the generalization "a human hand has 5 fingers" to then say that "therefore because your hands have 6 fingers, you are not a human"

Saline9515 · 2026-04-17T13:44:46 1776433486

I the sense of what OP did say, it would be more "grafting a sixth finger doesn't mean that you are not human anymore".

Just like taking meat from your arm to create new genitals doesn't make you a man, biologically (psychologically it may be different).