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// Sex is determined at conception and recognised at birth or perhaps earlier of a scan is taken.//
Note that such scans determine sex *visually*, and rarely -- if ever -- by checking chromosomes. It's true that in the vast majority of cases they're likely to correspond, but there are equally rather a lot of exceptions: these are "intersex" people. As an example, Caster Semenya is intersex, as she was assigned female at birth but turns out to have XY chromosomes.
Depending on how you count, there are as many as 1 in every 270 people who would count as intersex, or around 30 million worldwide. The "depending on how you count" here is doing a bit of work, as other estimates come out lower, but a lot is to do with what even counts as "intersex", and I'm choosing here to go with an upper estimate that covers most conditions differing from the "usual" genome (ie XX = female and XY = male) (see https:/
Still, none of this is strictly relevant to gender. This wrestler is a boy (well, a man now) because that's how he sees himself, that's how others see him, and so on.
As to whether the prefix "trans" is necessary... funnily enough, you've hit upon a key point of recent transgender politics. You may or may not remember the "trans women are women" slogan, which -- regardless of whether you agree or disagree, no doubt you'd say the opposite -- is precisely about arguing that the trans label shouldn't be necessary.
Note that such scans determine sex *visually*, and rarely -- if ever -- by checking chromosomes. It's true that in the vast majority of cases they're likely to correspond, but there are equally rather a lot of exceptions: these are "intersex" people. As an example, Caster Semenya is intersex, as she was assigned female at birth but turns out to have XY chromosomes.
Depending on how you count, there are as many as 1 in every 270 people who would count as intersex, or around 30 million worldwide. The "depending on how you count" here is doing a bit of work, as other estimates come out lower, but a lot is to do with what even counts as "intersex", and I'm choosing here to go with an upper estimate that covers most conditions differing from the "usual" genome (ie XX = female and XY = male) (see https:/
Still, none of this is strictly relevant to gender. This wrestler is a boy (well, a man now) because that's how he sees himself, that's how others see him, and so on.
As to whether the prefix "trans" is necessary... funnily enough, you've hit upon a key point of recent transgender politics. You may or may not remember the "trans women are women" slogan, which -- regardless of whether you agree or disagree, no doubt you'd say the opposite -- is precisely about arguing that the trans label shouldn't be necessary.
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