I don’t want to « oppose » anything actually. I just don’t want to be compelled to accept things either. Hence I raise the questions I have. Without success once more ...
You'll receive lots of answers. There is no shortage of answers and well-developed rationales to the questions 'What is a woman?' and 'Is feeling like a woman the same as being a woman?'
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This is all people do, argue about these from from different ideological/philosophical frameworks. It's incredibly tedious and our essay was an attempt to cut through it & address practicalities and a simple liberal ethics in relation to it.
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And somehow, I agree. More and more, it will become obvious that different metaphysics lead to radically different point of views. Hence, people will have to coexist. Still lots of progress to do on this, on both sides.
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I think it's better to care less about definitions and more about letting people do what they want, sorting out the practical issues and waiting on the science to explain this phenomenon more clearly.
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Ok. Anyway, thank you for your patient answers. It was instructive for me.
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Ok. I must have discussed with the wrong people so far ... Answers I received were all the same eventually, you know: this is tedious :)
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Really?! The radfems say a woman is an adult female human and base this on reproductive systems. The social conservatives are very similar. The trans activists say woman is a self-identification,
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The radfems say the trans activists are delusional because they think someone with a penis can be a woman and the trans activists say the radfems are misogynistic because they don't accept trans women. Neither of them recognise each other's definitions.
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They don't find it tedious. They go on and one for ever about it. Many of the rest of us find it tedious and wish they'd shut up. Meanwhile science finds a number of differences differentiate the sexes and that trans people often have ones more like the other sex to their gonads
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1/ In the meantime I was in a plane - not the best place to tweet :) what you say is exactly why I do not think science will be of great help (although it will certainly bring interesting findings). We will learn for sure, but there is also the whole lot of what we know.
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2/ and this includes that fact: trans people have plenty of fundamental characteristics of their «genital» sex. Hence they will never be fully their perceived sex. Even though we find that they also share some of its characteristics. They are ... trans. Somewhere in between.
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