I understand the US government is going about defining man and woman based on a framework of biological sex. What alternatives should be used to not ‘erase' trans people that are coherent, material, objective and useful in law?
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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We're there already, are we? Understanding everything there is to know about biological differences between the sexes? Neuroscience suggests otherwise.
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That’s more to do with psychology - behaviour and personality though. You can’t truly change sex.
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That comes from brains. I don't suggest you can truly change your biology but that some people's do not uniformly match the sex of their genitals.
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we used to call that personality, no?
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