You definitely need to be female to give birth, regardless of whatever gender identity label you give yourself (e.g. "man" or "non binary").

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optionalsquid 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That was conclusively disproven by Schwarzenegger et al., 1994.

	▲	nosioptar 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Our education system has failed younger generations. Everyone my age watched the documentary about Schwarzenegger's pregnancy.

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ceejayoz 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Oh yeah?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19155947/

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liveoneggs 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm not sure if you're kidding or what but the mothers in that paper had 46 (the normal number) of XX chromosomes, a female with a mosaic-type defect containing some Y - successfully giving birth further proves these were female humans.

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nostrademons 3 hours ago | parent [-]

If you want your mind-blown, read up on feto-maternal microchimerism:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8762399/

tl;dr: All boy moms will have some proportion of XY cells lodged in their bodies until they die. And this can result in them showing up as genetically male on a DNA test, simply because they once gave birth to a boy. When you get down to a cellular or molecular level, notions of "sex" or even "individuality" are far more blurry than our mental models admit. Sorta like recent findings that by cell count, humans are only about 43% human, and the rest is the bacteria making up our microbiome, and that our microbiome can have significant impact on our behavior.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-43674270

	▲	liveoneggs 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		yeah I knew that already - I have a son and it was mentioned as a fun fact along the way

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kg 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you want to provide appropriate care to people with wombs you don't want to filter based on what their drivers' license or birth certificate say, because those can not only defy your expectations, but they can also be wrong due to clerical errors or other factors.

I can't even humor your assumption that there are only two sexes and one birthing sex, because intersexed people exist, as do people with unusual chromosomes. Some of them have wombs and can give birth. Language like "birthing persons", while awkward, admits the existence of those people into a larger group without requiring even more awkward phrasing akin to "women, and men with wombs, and intersexed people with wombs".

	▲	what 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Intersex and chromosomal disorders don’t change the sexual binary. They aren’t some weird other sex.