What is a man or woman?

I don't know what you mean?

Ah, I see, it's a conspiracy theory?

I don't use the words conspiracy theory, to say it's not 'real.

Though my mind currently has it flipped on not real.

Some conspiracies prove true.

I thought you might mean inevitable collapses as happen to populations naturally in course of history or environment,

But you mean government induced policy, I think.

our current food supply is boosted significantly by petroleum based fertilizers

petroleum based fertilizers are unsustainable

the MIT study that predicts societal collapse by 2040 is not a "conspiracy theory"

People also thought Y2K was going to be a big disaster.

I'm not saying the prediction is wrong, but that I've done no research, so I don't have a strong opinion on it.

ok

but how would you translate this opinion from a legal perspective ?

I'm unsure, as I'm not well read on the law.

But it would seem to me a mistake, to put a completely physical man in a woman's prison, or a completely physical woman in a man's prison.

perhaps prisons should be segregated by weight-class ?

I think it's possibly that prisons in 'general, could be designed or restructured many different ways,

Likely improved.

It is a problem there's all kinds of problem populations when it comes to prisons. There are physically very weak people that might have to go to prison. Pregnant women. Law enforcement. Pedophiles. People that have aged in in the system and now need nursing home care we have a prison in the state just for nursing home patients. More than likely what would be needed or will become necessary or wings that would provide a safe environment for the trans population that doesn't involve PC. More than likely PC is where they're at now but PC is a population that's highly endangered and I don't think it's right to necessarily even have PC in the same prison walls because during riots one of the first thing that happens is PC inmates are murdered.

While I could do my usual spiel about how trans women are women, let me instead propose an alternative:

Depends. Which definition is the most useful given the context?

In 99.9% of contexts, including medical care and in social situations, to define someone based on their chromosomes is not the most useful definition. It is, in fact, occasionally very unhelpful (ex: times when a cis woman is born with all the sex characteristics of a woman but has male chromosomes).

So there are men with certain chromosomes, women with certain chromosomes, and a few aberrations that are both?

If we mean “man” or “woman” pertaining to biological sex and not gender, then the question is really “what is a male or female?”.

This depends on whether you define sex in terms of genetics or genitalia. I think genetics is more fundamental with genitalia being more cosmetic meaning the former is a better way to determine sex.

Most males and females have their genitalia in line with their genetics, but there are very rare mismatches.

If would say a male has XY chromosomes and a female has XX chromosomes. Period.

If an XY person has a vagina then that vagina is an biological error, and if a XX person has a penis then that penis is a biological error.

Your genitals don’t change your genetics.

For humans not fungi

...." The answer to our hypothetical survey is simple: gametes are the difference between males and females. But if you take a more holistic point of view, it’s not as straightforward.

......Exactly what a male and female looks like, at the end of the day, and how each behaves (their sex roles) depends largely on the ecological theatre in which their evolutionary history has been played out. "....

--> = spermozoa  ---X or y, not both--- simple ergo mass produced ex hydrogen atom is simple and most mass-produced in Universe/God

O = egg ---X only--- more complex ergo more rarefied

X x - X y = three X's for every y in Universe/God when all is in equanimity.

(((v))) = fertilized egg that invaginates { v } to create three germ layers ---aka gastrulation----

Defining gender as a condition determined strictly by a person’s genitals is based on a notion that doctors and scientists abandoned long ago as oversimplified and often medically meaningless.
Researchers who have studied gender issues and provided health care to people who do not fit the typical M/F pigeonholes said that previous Trump administration plan to define gender goes beyond the limits of scientific knowledge.
“The idea that a person’s sex is determined by their anatomy at birth is not true, and we’ve known that it’s not true for decades,” said Dr. Joshua D. Safer, an endocrinologist and executive director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Mount Sinai Health System in New York. He is also president of the United States Professional Association of Transgender Health.

What is a man or woman?  Beats the shit out of me, your guess is as good as anyone's. They or it  are what ever you want to believe they or it are. The question is out side of the realm of science, society, reason and logic. All I know is if you have  a inny you got get a pap smear test and if you have an outty you got get a prostate exam.

i belive that a woman is someone who identifies as so 

and a man is an individual who identifies as so 

it is very simple, but how? i do not know. ig for some people it's a psycological matter/topic i mean if a women identifies herself as a women because she likes girly things (for example) that is strictly based upon stereotypes it is completly valid, but untrue in some type of way, because men cause also like girly things.

so i'm kind of conflicted 

however in religions and certain types of beliefs it is different 

a woman is someone who posesses a uterus 

and a man is someone who posesses a penis 

so i think that people will never settle on an understanding regarding this debate .

What does it mean to identify as female/male?  Can I (as a white guy) identify as Michael Jordan and expect NBA teams to draft me even though I'm 170 cm tall?  Can I act like the stereotypical black guy and do stereotypically black things if I identify as a black guy?  What if science confirmed that some white guys have black brains and vice versa?

If you think it's racist to stereotype black people and apply it, would you argue it's sexist for a transgender to imitate the gender they identify with?

This is why gender theory is one of the few issues where most Americans agree with the right, so the right is leaning in on it because they know it's popular for them to do so.

So is a duckling that identifies as a dog (not as silly as it might sound), a duck or a dog?

Well, it's still a duck, that has become psychologically associated with a dog.

Just as a man might  psychologically associate with femininity, and and a woman might associate with masculinity....Still doesn't mean that in terms of physical definition, a man is not a man and a woman is not a woman.

So we can say and do anything we choose to, but this does not alter the basic reality of gender....Male sperm producer, female egg producer.

Unless you cut his bollocks off, or remove her ovaries and render them both sterile.

Which won't stop people fiddling for fun with each others bits and bobs....Which is what it all really boils down to.....The application of sexuality, within a sexually repressed society.

as i said it's someone that identifies as so.  that means that tans people as you said transitioned from a gender to another and that said person now identifies as the gender they trasinitioned into. if you know what i mean

What does it mean to identity as a woman or a man?

Ya, what the ever. My statement stands. You can be a giraffe if you want to. I am sure society can be made to accommodate any delusion people want to put forward using intimidation and threats of financial destruction for not doing so.

Are you the future?

A man is someone with strength, a woman is someone with love. Any one who is full man or full woman, becomes unbalanced and out of tune with the flow of the river of life.

Now its been 10,00 years, the twinkling of starlight, maybe its only yesterday,

in the year 2525, if   man {  X y }is still alive, if woman { X x } can survive they may find

Part 1 old

Part 2 new

It is believed by some that, the y chromsome is just and aborted X chromosome, that, somehow aquired the SRY gene.

Fred Hoyle and some others believe various biologic composition and viruses come from extra-terrestrial sources ex comets.

Left-handed amino-acids have been found in some metorites that have impacted Earth See Murchinson metorite.

....." For example, comet Hyakutake, which was easily visible to the naked eye in March, 1996, was first discovered by a Japanese amateur astronomer using binoculars. Astronomers were surprised to learn "Hyakutake contains abundant ethane and methane, compounds never before confirmed in comets" (7-9). On March 27, 1997, NASA announced that a year-long study using Hubble and several Earth-based telescopes shows that the trace ices in the nucleus of comet Hale-Bopp are somehow segregated from water-ice (10). And on April 21, 1997, astronomers on the Canary Islands reported that Hale-Bopp has a third tail of a kind not seen before; it is composed of sodium gas (11). Following so many new findings, comet theorists are completely rethinking how comets are formed and what they contain. Perhaps in the process they should consider biological causes for some of the unexpected phenomena. For example, on Earth, ethane comes from methane, and methane is made from carbon dioxide by bacteria. This process could happen on comets as well. ".....

I don't think you know anything about anything.