It's strange that for millions of years human beings have been assigning sex to individuals without the benefit of chromosomal tests, and yet now so-called conservatives, supposedly the defenders of tradition, want to make sex determinations entirely on the basis of XX and XY, even if the test result totally contradicts the person's anatomy, appearance, experience, life history, and social situation: all the things that actually determine sex in real life.
@DavidSalo It falls in line with a consistent theme in conservative (tm) ideology since at least 1950: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be getting something he or she isn't entitled to. Hence means tests for every kind of aid, gene tests to "prove" one's gender, standardized tests to make sure schools are actually doing something worthwhile with the buckets and buckets of money they get (🙄). Because we wouldn't want anyone to have an unfair advantage (other than rich folks' kids).