Re: A unique number for every "person" - can it be done?
From: gerard46 (gerard46_at_rtt.net)
Date: 03/01/05
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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 22:02:55 GMT
| TGOS wrote:
|> spinoza1111 wrote:
|> This taxonomy would discriminate against transgendered people and at a
|> minimum needs a fourth category of "indeterminate" for gender.
|
| Every human being has only one sex. It is determined by the presence or
| absence of a Y chromosome. Presence means male, anything else female.
---snipped---
Not quite. Some human beings have both, er, as you say, sex. You are
assuming that an XX is a female, and XY is male. How about YY ?
In any case, this all breaks down when you can't determine what the sex
is, and it happens more than you think. After all, how many humans had
their chromosome's checked ? A lot of certain atheletes, of course.
Most of us know what we are by just looking. Sometimes, that's not
enough. Think hermaphodites. _________________________________Gerard S.
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