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Kathleen Stock on What is a Woman?

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What's the Difference Between Intersex and Female Genitalia?

There are people we know who are not easy to categorize into either sex for various reasons. Some of these, not all of them, but some of these are hard cases for er a traditional view of what counts as female and what counts as male. What i think you should have is a cluster concept of biological sex where there's a range of characteristics - most of us have all of them for a particular sex. But that doesn't mean that we should sort of throw up our hands and say, ok, or bets are off. Any one can be anything.

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