'Women's right to define their own sex' always seems to mean the right of feminists who don't accept trans identity to define 'woman' for all women. Nope. You can say what you think, of course. Other women will disagree with you.https://twitter.com/kj_harrison/status/942003567648485376 …
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The linguistic debate isn't for women to settle, but for all of society. All English-speakers know what we mean by "man" and "woman", "boy" and "girl". Note that no one has a problem identifying newborns as "boys" or "girls", based on biological facts.
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Some have a problem with this. Vast majority of people have a gender identity which matches their genitals tho. They're easily observable whereas other biological facts which impact gender identity - neurological, genetic, hormonal are not but we're learning more all the time
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In terms of a feeling of one's gender, yes - but internal feelings aren't the measure by which English-speakers have traditionally used gendered terms. That is, that isn't what those words mean.
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I think they are. That is how gender differs from sex. Sex= woman. Gender = womanly, feminine. This is the less tangible sense of a gender. If I say 'He is a very masculine man' you know what I mean and that 'man' is his sex & 'masculine' more of a feeling of gender.
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Right, but in keeping with this, would a "trans woman" be happy if I acknowledged that he is feminine?
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That's a different issue to whether or not gender is in the gonads or in the brain and manifested in the perceptions and presentation.
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Gender is how we use gendered terms, though - no? And this is the crux of contentious debates on pronoun usage.
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