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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And this can't be helped by insisting that trans men and women be treated straightforwardly as the sex their genitals indicate or as the sex they feel themselves to be. Eg Neither men's nor women's prisons are appropriate for trans women. It all needs to worked out.
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This isn't helped by people wanting to have everything cut and dried right now for ideological reasons with the solution being a straightforward claim that trans women are women or they are men. They are trans women & we have yet to fully understand this & work out ethical stuff.
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I used to have a very PoMo position on sex and gender, then decided this was rubbish and swung to the other end of very RadFem definitions. Realised those were flawed as well. Now I'm kinda in the middle, acknowledging that it's a difficult/fuzzy thing with no easy answers.
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Yes there's a very strong bimodal distribution of biological sex *but* I can't tell if someone is intersex by looking at them. I assume everyone I see is either male or female. Some trans people "look trans", others don't.
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I would challenge this by saying that your personal and subjective lack of knowledge of someone’s sex does not mean they the concept of sex is not robust and that the person does not have one.
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You don't have to convince me that the concept of sex is robust, that's been my position for the past years. I've just come across some fuzzy aspects that I'm trying to incorporate into this concept.
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I don’t think sex is a fuzzy issue at all. It may well have lots of complicated developmental conditions etc associated with people. But it is a fundamental and well-defined characteristic of biological systems. ‘Gender', on the other hand...
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What? I'm the one pointing that out. Oh dear. Are we going to have a complete communication failure because you insist on arguing with things I;m not saying too? I'll bail out if so.
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Science is doing nothing of the sort. Some people are utterly convinced one of their limbs doesn’t belong to them. There is a medical explanation for why this happens. Doesn’t mean the answer is to cut off the limb, no matter how much they beg us to.
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I am completely with you there, but what's been confusing me recently is trans ppl saying gender dysphoria is not a necessity for being trans. But how can a person who's fine with their body/sex be trans? I don't really get that.
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