kengr

They are suffering from "script syndrome" as I call it. Normally seen in customer (dis)service workers, it's where you don't actually *read* the message, you just skim it looking for keywords and regurgitate the canned response for the problem most often associated with said keywords.

They aren't interested in genetics. Nor medical anything. all they care about is that you fit their nice little boxes.

They "know" there are two sexes (the X gender on legal IDs is going to cause them some real problems soon enough). They don't know the difference between sex and gender.

They (reluctantly, I suspect) know that there are people who transition from male to female and vice versa.

Like most people they haven't a clue that mammalian biology has a lot more possibilities.

btw, if you want fun, there are a few known cases of *fertile* XY females. As in they had a kid via normal sex.

And think of the fun if a guevedoce was enrolled in a school in some states. Puberty hits and her testicles drop and enlarge and her clitoris starts growing into a penis.

I wanna see the arguments about which bathroom *he* has to use. :-)

I'd also *love* to see what one of those states with the "you are the sex on your original birth certificate" bathroom bills would do when confronted with the person in that passport case.

And one of my stories deals with the fun if we actually tried to use genetic testing.

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/55415/intended-consequences