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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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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