This XX and XY chromosomal business is turning any debate on gender issues into black-and-white framing. Which well may be futile from the start, as "gender" is increasingly showing to be a fluent concept.
A tranistory scale with a division other than "male" or "female" would be handier.
Except that I've no idea what those brackets should/could be.
Cross gender perceptions, the perception of one gendered individual by an individual of the opposite gender, and especially, the evaluation of interior thought processes in that context, is doubly tricky. Hermeneutics is the philosophical-psychological subject involved there, so we are immediately in blue water, with no bottom that will ever do any of us any good, yet that is exactly where some of the most interesting questions are to be found. Abandon all certainty, ye who enter here! But then I am told we have to abandon certainty to "do" quantum mechanics. But it is not the same, I am sure. :-) As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
