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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One day, we might know all there is to know about why some people are trans and be able to plot the biological aspects of what makes someone a woman including gonads, brains, hormones, responses to pheromones, genetics etc and be able to plot people on that. We can't now.
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Currently, you are just arguing to restrict the objective meaning to gonads (almost no-one aegues gonads are not objectively real & bimodal. The whole concept of trans relies on it) and ignore the rest of relevant biology. That will fail as trans people will continue to exist.
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There are only two sexual reproductive classes, male and female, and the entire history of the male-class exploiting the female-class has occurred along those lines. Women being infertile (e.g.) did not enable them to opt out of the oppressed class.
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It matters that women be able to make those statements and have them mean something. It's the entire core of feminism.
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Last point. It is getting late. Yes, people may have different definitions. We might swap and compare them. Those definitions may evolve over time even. But, that is very different from people being *unable* to offer a coherent, material meaning for words - and yet still use them
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There's also just the fact that we don't know everything. It is OK to say we don't know when we don't. Maybe one day we can divide all the stuff we currently call 'gender' into brain stuff, hormone stuff, socialised stuff & individual stuff but right now, its a mess.
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We just have to do the best we can knowing that it is unsatisfactorily messy and vague. Some people like messineas. Like you, I hate it & want to tidy it and make it clear but I think its a mistake to reach conclusions without all the facts.
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Until historically very recently, the word ‘woman’ has had a very stable and coherent meaning - adult human female. Some men have then declared “I am a woman” and suddenly everyone is in a mess. We can choose to a) say, “that is not true”, or b) abandon any meaning to the word.
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Can you explain what it is that has led you to adopt position (b)?
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Right after you explain why you've stopped beating your wife. I have already explained why you won't define your way out of the reality that trans people exist and that brains, hormones etc are also biological aspects which relate to gender and this is new.
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