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Maybe that was a bad example to use, that is my bad. It was just the first thing I thought of. The government needs to define all sorts of things, not just criminal acts. You say it's being human. They even define what a human is.. Laws have to be written in such a way as to include explicit definitons so they can be enforced without loopholes. (Or in some cases create loopholes like with the rich and taxes)
Where you get your law degree?
Are you implying it requires a law degree to understand that the government defines what terms mean for legal purposes? If you don't understand that you have a lot more to worry about than my certifications.
It's sarcasm. Obviously you didn't study law.
The fact that laws often define terms does not justify a law defining sex or gender. There's nothing implicit to concepts of positive law or legislative authority that require legal definitions of gender.
There are so few occasions in law where it's not a violation of equal protection to discriminate on the basis of gender that there really is almost zero need for law to define it.
Most of those rare occasions are related to reproduction, and even then there's no inherent reason to define genders, the law could just refer to pregnancy or pregnant persons.
You would have learned all about this if you had studied law. I'm sure they must have these concepts where you're from.
https://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment14/annotation06.html