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If Rothblatt sent a DNA sample off to a DNA testing lab, would they detect the sample as being from a male or a female?

(not that I really care all that much)



Male, because that's her genetic sex. Note that gender and sex are two different, not necessarily correlated things. Sex is the sum of your physical characteristics; gender is what you feel and/or identify as. She identifies as a woman, and has in fact had sexual reassignment surgery (giving her most female physical characteristics). She's a woman, and female.


One is something related to science ; the other is related to political or social beliefs.




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