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?
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Replying to @lecanardnoir
I'm not even sure what that question means. There's seldom a need to define the sex of someone in law and when there is, it usually comes down to some biological difference which can be accounted for in law.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
In the UK, sex is a protected characteristic that enables women, for example, to exclude men from certain protected spaced (prisons, rape crisis centres etc). Such protections require a defintion of what a man and a woman is. This is quite fundamental, no?
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Replying to @lecanardnoir
No, they don't. One can recognise the reality that trans people exist and that, in some areas, like sport and prisons, their rights and inclusion need to be considered in a class of their own. We wrote this about it.https://areomagazine.com/2017/09/27/an-argument-for-a-liberal-and-rational-approach-to-transgender-rights-and-inclusion/ …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Of course trans people exist, but I suspect their many experiences, motives and presentations do not enable a unified, useful defintion. On the other hand, you appear to not want to recognise the objective, material existence of women? I hope I am wrong.
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Replying to @lecanardnoir
I sent you an essay. I recognise the objective material reality that biological sex is bimodal in teams of reproductive systems, yes, but also that gender comes from a variety of other biological aspects like brains, hormones, genetics etc.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
One of the problems I have reading such things is understanding what people mean by the central terms they use. I think we might agree what a ‘sex’ is. But hat is a ‘gender’?
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Replying to @lecanardnoir
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
I have never seen anyone explain what a ‘gender’ is. Everyone ducks out.
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Replying to @lecanardnoir @HPluckrose
I would suggest that this is because the very notion of people having a ‘gender’, as used in the context of essays such as yours, is inherently incoherent and unstable.
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Avoid it then. It doesn't change the reality that some people are trans and that this is when gender identity doesn't match biological sex and this has both biological and social aspects
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