Exceptions Argument

AN ARGUMENT FOR GENDER IDENTITY

P1. If not everyone is either a biological man or biological woman, then laws should not classify individuals as either biological men or women

P2. Not everyone is either a biological man or biological woman 

C. Therefore laws should not classify individuals as either biological men or women


CONSERVATIVE COMMENTARY

Colin M. Wright and Emma N. Hilton said in the Wall Street Journal:

There is a difference, however, between the statements that there are only two sexes (true) and that everyone can be neatly categorized as either male or female (false). The existence of only two sexes does not mean sex is never ambiguous. But intersex individuals are extremely rare, and they are neither a third sex nor proof that sex is a “spectrum” or a “social construct.” Not everyone needs to be discretely assignable to one or the other sex in order for biological sex to be functionally binary. To assume otherwise—to confuse secondary sexual traits with biological sex itself—is a category error.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dangerous-denial-of-sex-11581638089