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It's not a hate crime for a woman to feel uncomfortable waxing male genitalia | Arwa Mahdawi theguardian.com/commentisfree/… 
2/ There are also underlying scientific, philosophic, and political debates about whether or not a male with male genitalia is a woman, or, whether or not a woman with male genitalia is a woman. However, you want to phrase the question. Right now, courageous and determined
3/ feminists, radical feminists, gender-critical feminists are holding a tenuous defensive position, though the scientific consensus is on their side, sex is male or female, and gender is a social construct better put on the ashheap of history. This debate will eventually erupt
4/ into the mainstream, though it has shown up in bathroom bills. But, the philosophical and epistemological debate is at least as consequential. The scientific consensus that biology can safely divide species into male and female is even larger than the scientific consensus for
5/ climate change. In other words, overthrowing the biology consensus in favor of a suspect ideology could have dire consequences for the climate change consensus.
