Both of those things are happening though and so it seems much more likely that the zeitgeist, which includes women & white people, is against gender-skepticism and ethno-nationalism.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @Pathdom
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
Right, but in keeping with this, would a "trans woman" be happy if I acknowledged that he is feminine?
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Replying to @Pathdom
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
Gender is how we use gendered terms, though - no? And this is the crux of contentious debates on pronoun usage.
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That is, the concept of gender is essentially about how we categorise people using gendered terms.
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No, that's not how I am using 'gender' or how the term is understood as distinct from sex.
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