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6:50pm June 20, 2014
encephalcocoon asked: In regards to the 'biomale/biofemale' terms, I hear people use 'assigned (or designated) female/male.' It means the same thing but emphasizes that it is a designation not an innate characteristic :)

Yeah I use that (or similar) when I’m talking about assigned sex — when I can remember, which is not always, because language issues.  

But what we’re talking about her is an attempt to have a term for the biological characteristics of sex.  Like, so that everyone with a particular body type that responds a particular way to medication, can be referenced in one fell swoop.  And there’s no way to do that without making some reference to sex or biological sex as divorced from gender completely.  At which point it’s not what’s assigned that’s relevant, it’s the general body type that’s relevant, at which point you have to fall back on biological sex because there’s nothing else to fall back on that doesn’t involve referencing body parts piecemeal in a way that isn’t even accurate half the time.

(Note to others:  madeofpatterns brought this topic up, this is a reference to a conversation with her.  There’s been a long discussion in which every single possibility pretty much has been debated.)

Nobody really likes this option, there just isn’t a better one for summing up an entire body type rapidly.