Originally posted by Leonhard
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They have XY chromosomes, therefore they are male. They also have testicles, therefore they are male. It's really not difficult, and wasn't controversial until very recently AFAIK.
I read an article about a different type of androgen insensitivity a while back. It wasn't complete like your description, so once the kids hit puberty they developed fully into men. They were a little more "feminine" in appearance, but they were male the whole time. In fact, you could simply take any male who was extremely early in development, remove the androgens and they would develop similarly. It's just how hormones affect development in humans. You can take an adult man and make them grow breasts with hormones, but that doesn't make them women. Androgen insensitivity is an unfortunate condition, but it doesn't change a man into a woman any more than Bruce Jenner's surgery and hormone therapy changed him into one. He's a man regardless of his feelings, or his outward appearance. Just like the individuals you speak of aren't women.
I also saw you bring up stuff like clown fish in a post to Meh Gerbil. It's a red herring. They aren't human, and they aren't even mammals. AFAIK no mammal can do what clown fish do with their sex. Not only that, but you are putting forth the idea that gender is a social construct, and then bring in an odd possibility of creatures changing their sex under certain circumstances. It has literally nothing to do with this topic, and only muddies the waters.
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