One of the problems I have reading such things is understanding what people mean by the central terms they use. I think we might agree what a ‘sex’ is. But hat is a ‘gender’?
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Replying to @lecanardnoir
I probably can't explain that on Twitter. Particularly as people go one way or another on whether it includes a load of cognitive, psychological and behavioural stuff which is biological.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I have never seen anyone explain what a ‘gender’ is. Everyone ducks out.
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Replying to @lecanardnoir @HPluckrose
I would suggest that this is because the very notion of people having a ‘gender’, as used in the context of essays such as yours, is inherently incoherent and unstable.
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Replying to @lecanardnoir @HPluckrose
Gender is probably a bit fuzzy and (partially) linguistic, in the later Wittgenstein model, but that certainly doesn't mean it isn't a thing.
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But what is it? How do you feel like a woman? Can you answer that without sex stereotypes?
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It's notoriously difficult to articulate although stereotypes are generally pretty sound and rooted on our pattern recognition.
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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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We had a go at it here.https://areomagazine.com/2017/09/27/an-argument-for-a-liberal-and-rational-approach-to-transgender-rights-and-inclusion/ …
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