Oh, ffs. My own professed beliefs have not changed. I still support trans identity and don't support authoritarian, unreasonable & aggressive trans activists. And, yes, I still disagree with radfems.pic.twitter.com/udlmeAztxY
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Yes more complex as we're dealing with the human brain, but unless you subscribe to men and women being universally and fundamentally different psychologically, there is no way one can feel like one sex or the other. Should there not be an objective definition for men and women?
Yes, but we don't know what it is yet. We will probably end up with a load of different figures, bimodal and scaled to do with gonads, chromosomes, genes, brains and hormones that denote femaleness & maleness and will then understand why some ppl don't feel same sex as gonads.
Brain science will never be clear cut, so this is basically saying there will be no real definition for men and women but rather a gender spectrum based on distributions along curves. Why not just categorize by sex but support people dressing/behaving how they want anyway?
Or just let people decide whether to categorize by sex or by the other person's gender identity? You'd probably do the former and I the latter.
Well this is still saying that there would be no objective, agreed-upon definition for men and women. So what use would the terms be at all? They could be discarded and only biological sex differentiated.
How could they? This would require expecting people who are happy to call someone the gender they feel they are because it makes them feel recognised and doesn't harm them at all, to not do that. I'd oppose this as strongly as forcing ppl to use pronouns they don't believe in.
Whilst we may well know one day what makes trans people trans, we will probably never agree on what gender is and how men and women should be categorized. Then it comes down to accepting that people have the right to differ on this and leaving them alone.
Any objective definitions necessarily force people into categories regardless of their wishes. Like I'm objectively categorized as nearsighted even though I'd rather not be. Don't feel you have to respond, I'm just thinking.
Yes, but in the same way as that, a trans woman objectively has a penis whether she wants one or not. She doesn't deny that. That is what 'trans' means. And yet something makes her feel like a woman. Science is starting to show indications of why some people feel this way.
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