He wrote most of the Indian constitution! So he’s got a sort of legalist perspective which is very interesting.

the other function being the dream that complementarianism works

the reason fingerprinting took so long to be used (initially, to certify contracts) was because it’s very hard to put fingerprints into categories so they couldn’t be folded into absurd anthropologist race science and were ignored

See also rhetoric around sperm “penetrating” the egg despite egg cells being like 100x larger (and also doing all of the actual work, sperm cells literally do not have the necessary motive force to merge).

Emily Martin has a great article on it: web.stanford.edu/~eckert/PDF/...

Self-identification is relevant in only one form of transfeminine use: the pitiful trans narrative which focuses on wanting to be a woman. Other modes of use, such as the sex-work-adjacent "trap" narrative and the sex pest "gender predator" narrative, hinge more on transfem signifiers than self-ID.

You're too preoccupied with self-identification here; this would be like saying that someone is a woman iff they turn to the audience and say "I am a woman." We're concerned with the gendered patterns of use that authors employ, and the "straight man tricked by a trap" pattern is clear.