• ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Then technically these should be renamed to “Genital Reveal Parties” but that would imply a different type of party…

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      3 days ago

      in some cases the evidence of “gender” is inferred based on a blood test (the popular commercial tests I know of just looks for the presence of Y chromosome in the mother’s blood and infers the baby is male if so, and if not that the baby is female), so people who throw a party based on a blood test would be throwing a “presence of Y chromosome” party …

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      “Sex reveal party”. No, that sounds bad, too. “Assigned sex at birth reveal party”. You know what? Maybe we shouldn’t make such a big deal about what sex someone is born as and let them tell us who they are as they figure it out.