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[X-men][Deadpool] is Deadpool technically not a true mutant?

This comes from the Deadpool game where Deadpool calls Mr Sinister a “Mutate” like him. considering that Deadpool isn’t a natural mutant and had to be mutated by Dr Killbrew and weapon X, does this mean Deadpool and the other Weapon X experiments aren’t really technically mutants in the case that they were forcibly mutated?
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The comics do make a distinction between a mutant (someone born genetically different than baseline human) and a mutate (someone born as a baseline human, and then genetically altered accidentally or willfully). Wade Wilson was not born a mutant, but was made into something technically distinct from (but functionally very similar to) a mutant. Logan, also part of Weapon X, was born a mutant.

The films blur the line. In Wolverine Origins, Wade is depicted as a mutant, who was then further mutated. Deadpool the movie instead  describes the process as being a way of awakening the potential for mutation; Wade was essentially a born mutant, who likely never would have been noted as anything other than baseline human had he not volunteered for the program.