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The best way to defeat this argument is statistics.His dumb logic actually makes me a little MATI. Of course, you can't physically see someone's chromosomes with the naked eye, but you can observe the effects chromosomes have in nature through sexual dimorphism. We don't need to look at every individual person's chromosomes, because we can clearly see you have a damn penis and look like a man.
Just because you haven't observed them yourself, doesn't mean they don't exist. There's many things in the universe you can't natively overserve without the use of special tools. You can't see or smell carbon monoxide, but that doesn't stop it from killing you. It's a real shame, I actually used to kinda like the Axis of Awesome four chords video.
Reputable sources for intersex conditions (as in non-compromised sources that conflate things like high-T women or low-T men as intersex and claim "it's as common as red hair!") put intersex conditions as around 0.4% of the population. This isn't exclusive to abnormalities of the sex chromosomes, it includes things like AIS/CAIS (child born XY but body fails to respond appropriately to male hormones) or vaginal agenesis where the vagina just fails to develop for endocrine reasons. There's also hypospadias (the urethra is in a funny place on the dick) or anorchidism (balls didn't develop properly).
Most chromosomal abnormalities present as largely female, like triple X syndrome or single X syndrome. It's possible to have XX males where the SRY gene (the sex determining region on the Y chromosome) ends up on an X chromosome, or XXY males. But those are usually symptomatic - you can tell the person's intersex because they don't have normal genitals or don't experience normal puberty.
If you were born with a cock and balls, and you went through normal puberty, and your cock and balls are fully functional - well, I think in the entire 20th century there's like two cases (?) where this happened when someone wasn't XY and had no idea. The odds of someone specifically identified as male and not having any issues with normal male development are ludicrously remote (unlike with individuals identified as female).
The most well known chromosomal abnormality isn't to do with the sex chromosomes, it's to do with having an extra copy of chromosome 21 - Down's Syndrome. Can you imagine someone arguing "how do you know I don't have Down's Syndrome without any symptoms?"