# Gynaecologists can't tell transwomen from women?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gynaecologists-cant-tell-transwomen-from-women/385585
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [December 26, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gynaecologists-cant-tell-transwomen-from-women/385585 "2006-12-26T03:53:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2006, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gynaecologists-cant-tell-transwomen-from-women/385585/61 "2006-12-30T10:21:38Z")
Thanks for the spell check, **Malacandra** , a time honored Dope tradition, especially when there’s nothing else to say.
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2006, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gynaecologists-cant-tell-transwomen-from-women/385585/62 "2006-12-30T11:50:42Z")
[QUOTE=Johanna]
Thanks for the spell check, **Malacandra** , a time honored Dope tradition, especially when there’s nothing else to say.
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Another time-honoured tradition is pointing out coding errors. 😛
On topic, I’m sure you’d like me to follow the advice of Thumper’s daddy.
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gynaecologists-cant-tell-transwomen-from-women/385585/63 "2006-12-30T18:42:34Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra]
Another time-honoured tradition is pointing out coding errors. 😛
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Only by the poster who made the errors, usually in a followup post to say sheepishly: Whoops, I should have previewed, or: Can we get user permission to frigging edit our posts already? Spelling errors are more often pointed out by others as a cheap means of asserting superiority when an actual argument is lacking.
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> On topic, I’m sure you’d like me to follow the advice of Thumper’s daddy.
Dude, WTF. I got nothing personal against you. You tease me, I tease you back. Do you have issues regarding me or something?
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gynaecologists-cant-tell-transwomen-from-women/385585/64 "2006-12-31T00:07:49Z")
[QUOTE=Johanna]
Only by the poster who made the errors, usually in a followup post to say sheepishly: Whoops, I should have previewed, or: Can we get user permission to frigging edit our posts already? Spelling errors are more often pointed out by others as a cheap means of asserting superiority when an actual argument is lacking.
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Hey, I wasn’t here to make an argument in the first place; this is GQ, we’d need the next floor down for an argument (or the basement). Nor was there anything wrong with your spelling; you correctly spelled the wrong word, that was all.
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> Dude, WTF. I got nothing personal against you. You tease me, I tease you back. Do you have issues regarding me or something?
Issues? Certainly not. Possibly I occasionally consider you pretentious. Possibly, and with somewhat more justification, you more often consider me boorish. I would have no complaints. And the world in general very likely finds you the pleasanter of us two. Go in peace.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2006, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gynaecologists-cant-tell-transwomen-from-women/385585/65 "2006-12-31T06:14:27Z")
You two give it a rest. Enough.
**samclem** GQ moderator
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