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Rather "amusing", if a bit depressing, that both both Tony Blair and Keir Starmer more or less subscribe to the Kindergarten Cop definitions for the sexes: "boys (males) have penises and girls (females) have vaginas".

" 'What is a woman? Well, it's not a very hard thing for me to answer really,' [Tony Blair] said. 'I'm definitely of the school that says, biologically, a woman is with a vagina and a man is with a penis. I think we can say that quite clearly.' ..."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13543143/Keir-Starmer-men-penises-trans-women-biological-sex-Tony-Blair.html

https://youtu.be/k96h1dYQrj0?t=153

Given those definitions it is not surprising that so many -- including Blair and Starmer -- apparently "think" that changing sex is simply a matter of changing one's genitalia: "Change your genitalia, change your sex! Act now! Offer ends soon!!" 🙄

Both clearly haven't a flaming clue about the standard biological definitions for the sexes which are joined at the hip with reproductive abilities, although too many others are in the same boat. A "nice" summary from University of Manchester biologist Emma Hilton (AKA FondOfBeetles):

Hilton: "The definition of female is: of or denoting the sex that can produce large gametes. This not a matter of *observation*, this is a matter of *definition*."

https://x.com/FondOfBeetles/status/1488523777042432008

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=A8zl2ggAAAAJ&hl=en

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