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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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
Lots of people do with the extremes being radfems who say its a cultural construct to oppress women & we're identical psychologically really and essentialists saying its exactly the same as sex meaning that there are men's roles and women's roles.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @lecanardnoir
No, we understand male & female innate characteristics overlap psychologically. We understand outliers. But we believe it’s proof that society’s *constructed* notion of gender is too limited to accept fem men & masc women. Possibly this a factor in gender dysphoria?
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Replying to @cholllers @lecanardnoir
This is by no means universal and people frequently argue to me that it's all a cultural construct. You can try telling trans women they're feminine men but they probably won't agree with you and you'll be unlikely to socialise them into thinking so.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @cholllers
I am sure. But trans people have no special, innate insight into reality. Like the rest of us.
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Replying to @lecanardnoir @cholllers
Of course not. They know they exist tho. Like everyone does.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @cholllers
But that does mean their beliefs about themselves are correct.
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It is probably correct that they feel like the opposite sex (We all know ideologues jumping on the band wagon exist.) and that's usually all they're claiming. They don't claim to have been born with vaginas. We have yet to fully understand why feel this way. We've been here.
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