Andy, are you sure you aren't doubling down a little too hard here? Having known you through skeptical stuff for years and Helen's views widely disseminated and dissected the last few weeks.
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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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But many don’t want to be transwomen they want to be women. If we could all accept they are TW with specific needs that would be ideal.
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