Flutterby™! : Gender notes of the morning

Sports, the Olympics particularly, are a social construct meant to reinforce cultural norms. And gender segregation in sports even more so. So it's no surprise at all that the "what is a woman?" crowd is demonstrating that they're ignorant of biology, and that bullies are gonna move the goal posts if you give them one damned inch.

Anyway, a few random links this morning: One is professional boxer Patricio Manuel, who happens to be transgender. Pat's web site notes:

In 2013, he began medically transitioning under a doctor’s supervision, following USA Boxing and International Olympic Committee guidelines. He stepped back into the ring on May 5, 2016 – in the amateur male division – and won.

Pat successfully won his first bout as a pro boxer on Dec. 8, 2018.

Another is a reminder that the whole XX/XY thing is based on severely insufficient data and XY people give birth way more often than anyone suspects, just occasionally something is out of the norm enough that people check: Report of Fertility in a Woman with a Predominantly 46,XY Karyotype in a Family with Multiple Disorders of Sexual Development:

Results: Evaluation of the Y chromosome in the daughter and both parents revealed that the daughter inherited her Y chromosome from her father. Molecular analysis of the genes SOX9, SF1, DMRT1, DMRT3, TSPYL, BPESC1, DHH, WNT4, SRY, and DAX1 revealed normal male coding sequences in both the mother and daughter. An extensive family pedigree across four generations revealed multiple other family members with ambiguous genitalia and infertility in both phenotypic males and females, and the mode of inheritance of the phenotype was strongly suggestive of X-linkage.

Anyway, support your local Roller Derby squad.