The failing sad far-right New York Times needs to learn good journalism like The Washington Post (democracy dies in darkness btw) instead of spreading centrist pro-genocide propaganda. 
So what, then, is a biological male, or female? What determines this supposedly simple truth? It’s about chromosomes, right?
Well, not entirely. Because not every person with a Y chromosome is male, and not every person with a double X is female. The world is full of people with other combinations: XXY (or Klinefelter Syndrome), XXX (or Trisomy X), XXXY, and so on. There’s even something called Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, a condition that keeps the brains of people with a Y from absorbing the information in that chromosome. Most of these people develop as female, and may not even know about their condition until puberty — or even later.
"ackchewally, some people are born without legs, or with 3 legs, or there was that one poor fella in 1836 who was born with 7 legs, so you see legs are a spectrum and it is DEEPLY phobic to repeat this notion that humans have 2 legs, to utter the hateful phrase 'stand on your own 2 feet,' the 99% of us who are 2-legged need to consciously revise our way of speaking or else be fired from our jobs"
In the past decade, there has been some fascinating research on the brains of transgender people. What is most remarkable about this work is not that trans women’s brains have been found to resemble those of cisgender women, or that trans men’s brains resemble those of cis men. What the research has found is that the brains of trans people are unique: neither female nor male, exactly, but something distinct.
as identified in the rest of the article, any brain findings would be disastrous for the current zeitgeist
there are identifiably male and female brains: you go in for a scan, "sorry sir, I'm afraid you're not trans, you have a male brain"
trans people have unique brains which are neither male nor female: "sorry ma'am, I'm afraid you're not a transwoman, you are actually non-binary"
But there’s a problem with using neurology as an argument for trans acceptance — it suggests that, on some level, there is something wrong with transgender people, that we are who we are as a result of a sickness or a biological hiccup.
But trans people are not broken.
motherfucker just above you told us "well ackchewally" there are genetic anomalies,
people who scientifically have things wrong with them, which often result in severe biological and mental issues, who nonetheless prove this is all a spectrum, and now you're saying forget all that, there's no biological hiccup here
