I think these terms like sex and gender, male and female are deserving of analytical definitions, not loose handwaving that may be masking fallacies, errors and nonsense. Protections and rights surely depend on this.
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We still don't understand it very well but the evidence that trans people feeling the opposite sex to their gonads is rooted in biology is growing. More importantly, society needs to figure out how to make this easier for trans people without contravening any women's rights.
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James Cantor, if I understand him right, thinks that ppl have biologically rooted preferences/behaviours, but that whether they interpret these as meaning they're trans is due largely to socialisation. Do you think that's likely, or relevant?
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Certainly, in many cases. For example, I have a friend who has felt that she was male for as long as she can remember but because she believes gender to be a cultural construct & considers herself a radical feminist, she continues to identify as a woman & oppose trans acceptance.
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This doesn't stop her presenting herself as typically male in her dress and body-language and being taken to be a man by many people. She doesn't consider this the same thing as her lesbianism and most lesbians do not feel as tho they are really men.
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So, regarding the studies you alluded to, would these show that a trans man & a cis man were similar & a butch lesbian was dissimilar? Also, am I right in thinking that for you gender = a set of behaviours, preferences, aptitudes, together with a conviction of being male/female?
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