Trans people can't and #WontBeErased by attempts to define them out of existence. Presidents, however, can have that label removed. You'll need to vote, reasonable & compassionate Americans.
I probably can't explain that on Twitter. Particularly as people go one way or another on whether it includes a load of cognitive, psychological and behavioural stuff which is biological.
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I have never seen anyone explain what a ‘gender’ is. Everyone ducks out.
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Lots of people do with the extremes being radfems who say its a cultural construct to oppress women & we're identical psychologically really and essentialists saying its exactly the same as sex meaning that there are men's roles and women's roles.
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But it is a quite annoying and ambiguous term generally meant to describe the psychological, cognitive & behavioural bits as well as social stuff. Anything that isnt organs, essentially. Its not going anywhere tho. We've always recognised more than organs make us different.
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Men and women differ psychologically *ON AVERAGE*. Both sexes have a huge variety of personalities, preferences and modes of expression. It is *only* female biology that links all females together and it is *only* male biology that links all males together.
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Absolutely this. And as soon as you (for some reason) abandon this, the very concepts of sex, male, female etc become incoherent and impossible to objectively define. Why some take is path into erasure of sex and sexuality is boggling and I struggle to understand.
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It doesn’t mean that being transgender isn’t a valid thing, of course some people are trans and identity as the opposite sex they were born. But there has to be a solid definition of sex for there to be any coherence and peace!
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There does but we might not know right now exactly how it works. One day we'll probably have it all mapped out re gonads and chromosomes and brains and hormones which are all sexed & be able to plot individuals on them.
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Sex is indisputable. It’s already mapped out.
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