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Thank you!
I hate these "gotcha" responses like the "everyone is female" thing.
Of the many MANY ways that "biological sex" can be determined (phenotype, hormone, etc) the ONLY one that exists at the time of conception when we're not even talking embryo stage yet because there's only one fertilized cell (or two if you want until mitosis begins) is chromosomal sex.
"But we're all female at first" isn't going to hold up in court, and it's NOT going to save trans lives. We need to do better.