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Did you go into a fugue state as you read this part, or just felt like lying to everyone?
Some male babies are born with ambiguous genitalia, and get incorrectly assigned female at birth. They are raised "as a girl" in the gender sense, while still being biologically male. They are not trans. No amount of being raised "as a girl" changes their sex. Khelif is one of these people. Khelif is male.
You don't even understand the basics of what you're trying to argue about. Please, for everyone's sake, educate yourself before polluting the Fediverse.
Congratulations! You're learning that gender is actually a spectrum!
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But the article did not say anything about her being born with ambiguous genitalia. Did you hallucinate while reading the article or just felt like lying to everyone?
So let me educate you: there are people born with the SRY gene but only female physical characteristics. There are people born without the SRY gene that have a penis. So what defines a male? Is it being born with a penis, is it having the SRY gene, or is it something more complicated than that?
You've confused gender and sex. Please educate yourself. I'll help!
What makes someone male or female is the type of gametes their body is organized around producing.
Let's start with that. Can you acknowledge your previous ignorance now that you have become slightly more educated?
Okay, please educate me:
Person A has the SRY gene but their body does not have any male characteristics, and never did. They were born with a vagina and never had a penis. Are they male or female?
Person B does not have the SRY gene but was born with a penis. Are they male or female?
Person C was born with both a penis and a vagina, are they male and female?
Glad to help!
You're suffering from some common misconceptions, namely that genitalia is how sex is defined. It's not! Sex is defined entirely by gametes, because no other definition makes sense across the animal kingdom. The response to all of your questions is, "What gametes do they produce or are organized around producing?".
Chromosomes are how sex is determined in humans, but not how sex is defined. Sex is not defined by sex characteristics. Other species have different sex determination systems, such as the ambient temperature determining the sex of a fetus. Trying to define sex by chromosomes for those species just wouldn't make sense!
To answer your questions for persons A & B, please consult these handy charts:
https://theparadoxinstitute.org/articles/sex-development-charts
You will notice that each viable DSD has male or female listed, because their sex is not ambiguous. Person A would likely have CAIS and therefore be male
Person B would likely be have XX male syndrome and also be male
Person C doesn't exist, as you're imagining; you're suffering from another common misconception. Humans aren't born with fully functional reproductive organs of both sexes. Some species do have that! They have body plans where that is a normal part of development, and you will simultaneously find healthy males, females, and hermaphrodites co-existing (or males+hermaphrodites, or other combinations). Keep in mind that those species still have two sexes, they just have individuals that are male, female, or both sexes (sequentially or simultaneously)
Humans are what's known as gonochoric, because we don't have that. You can find humans born with Ovotesticular syndrome, but that still isn't "produces mature gametes of both types". It's "maybe produces gametes of one type, and has a bit of non-functional tissue of the other gamete type, known as streak tissue". Their bodies are still organized around producing one gamete type or the other.
There are two sexes, because there are exactly two types of gametes in anisogamous species. No more, no less. Note that you'll often see mating types confused with sex, but those are not sexes. Those are isogamous species and interesting, but irrelevant to this conversation.
I hope that helped!