To let trans people do what they want, manage some practical issues ethically, go with the science as it comes in & treat people as individuals. No wonder you're traumatised...https://twitter.com/tetrarchangel/status/950334944601092096 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
1/ By the way, I read your paper with interest. Still, I am not entirely convinced. Personally, I never doubted that being trans can have a biological origin. But it is then strange to use biology in order to dismiss biology.
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Replying to @BobFitzmarcel @HPluckrose
2/ I mean: the biology of the brain is not the only one that matters. You are not « a woman » simply because some characteristics of your brain are in-between those of men and women.
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Replying to @BobFitzmarcel @HPluckrose
3/ In fact, all this boils down to what the meaning of the words are. I never had a convincing answer when I tried to ask Trans activist: when you claim to be a woman, could you define what « woman » means?
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Replying to @BobFitzmarcel @HPluckrose
4/ Saying it is a purely social construction is obviously absurd because there wouldn’t be « genders » if there were not « sexes » to begin with. Moreover, what’s more « woman » from a social point of view than to give birth?
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Replying to @BobFitzmarcel @HPluckrose
5/ But trans people identifying as men will say things like: I am a man who gave birth. You quickly understand that under that perspective, anything « constraining » is excluded. But then, the word is simply void of any meaning.
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Replying to @BobFitzmarcel
I don't care much about the definition of 'woman.' As I said, my plan is to let trans people do their own thing, work out some solutions to practical complications and watch the science as it comes in.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
And I did not make you any reproach. I agree with most of what you say except that, maybe wrongly, I had the impression that you were implicitly accepting the Trans narrative: I « am » what I « feel ». What I think is questionable. Hence I questioned ...
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It doesn't matter. I accept trans identity, yes, for the reasons I've given. You don't have to.
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