In the academic and social justice left, 'stay in your lane', 'speech is violence', knowledge is culturally constructed, gender differences are culturally constructed etc *do* come from postmodernism but I agree most people don't know that. It's just normal now. https://twitter.com/cultofdusty/status/970421801472884736 …
Not really, no. Transgender identity is best supported by science. Also, you don't actually need to prove it. You just need to leave people alone. From a liberal perspective.
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I really don't have a horse in this race and don't know what to think of it. I've seen brain scan images etc that support what you say, but then trad fems say its about reproductive biology.
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Yes, it's best not to listen to radfems on this.
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I’d slightly disagree with you here, because the trans umbrella is now a large collection of various trans and gender non-conforming people, and for some of whom it’s a political identity rather than based on a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. Also don’t those scans correlate...
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...with sexual orientation? Also I do think rad fems have a stake in this, even though they disagree with the biological basis of trans identity, because the trans movement is impacting women’s lives.
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I know, it’s very good. I was mainly making the point about the size of the trans umbrella and gender non-conformity not necessarily being rooted in objective science.
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I say that too.
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So what do you think about, eg, trans women being included on Labour's women-only shortlists. Are you in favour, and if so on what basis? I'm going to guess you probably think they shouldn't have women-only shortlists haha. But still.
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