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?
It's notoriously difficult to articulate although stereotypes are generally pretty sound and rooted on our pattern recognition.
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When girls think they are men because they don't like pink and dresses, I want to smash my head against the wall. But that's what I always see in those ” trans kids ” stories. Obviously many women hate dresses and are not ”feminine.”
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Its not what I always see.
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Well, I can't speak for you, but every trans boy story I have ever seen on television makes a big deal out of the fact the trans boy hates dresses. Often the parents tried to force them on the kid.
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Nah, that's just what's easiest to describe.
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But what does not liking dresses have to do with being trans?
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Men seldom wear dresses. That is a symptom of being trans but it's much less easy to define than this. I can't do it despite seeing a kid growing up & people trying to convince him he was a girl & being very sure he wasn't. That can't be conveyed well.
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My challenge is that it is ‘notoriously difficult’ precisely because it is an ill-formed concept, full of irrational, incoherent ideas that easily degenerate into regressive sex-based ideas and sexist stereotypes.
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OK! And yet there are aspects of ***** which are not biological organs and people will continue to want to talk about them. It's not like you can dismiss the concept of gender and trans people will suddenly feel like the sex of their organs. It just makes discussion harder.
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Those remain judgment calls we haven't experience or ECHR decisions enough to navigate. The rapey fellah/lass in the women's prison was obviously silly, but we didn't have to do that now nor would we post reform as far as I can see.
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