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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 4
      Replying to @ByDogHazDohDoze @cultofdusty

      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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    2. ↑ I'm with Stupid ↓‏ @ByDogHazDohDoze Mar 4
      Replying to @HPluckrose @cultofdusty

      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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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 4
      Replying to @ByDogHazDohDoze @cultofdusty

      Yes, it's best not to listen to radfems on this.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Lizzy‏ @lizlozlizloz Mar 5
      Replying to @HPluckrose @ByDogHazDohDoze @cultofdusty

      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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    5. Lizzy‏ @lizlozlizloz Mar 5
      Replying to @lizlozlizloz @HPluckrose and

      ...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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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 5
      Replying to @lizlozlizloz @ByDogHazDohDoze @cultofdusty

      I co-authored this about it:https://areomagazine.com/2017/09/27/an-argument-for-a-liberal-and-rational-approach-to-transgender-rights-and-inclusion/ …

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    7. Lizzy‏ @lizlozlizloz Mar 5
      Replying to @HPluckrose @ByDogHazDohDoze @cultofdusty

      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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    8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 5
      Replying to @lizlozlizloz @ByDogHazDohDoze @cultofdusty

      I say that too.

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    9. ↑ I'm with Stupid ↓‏ @ByDogHazDohDoze Mar 5
      Replying to @HPluckrose @cultofdusty

      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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    10. Lizzy‏ @lizlozlizloz Mar 5
      Replying to @ByDogHazDohDoze @HPluckrose @cultofdusty

      I think one justification for having AWS is to give women a chance to get into politics after having children and this doesn’t apply to trans women. Also some transwomen may have only come out in their 40s, I think they should at least have lived as a woman for half their lives.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 5
      Replying to @lizlozlizloz @ByDogHazDohDoze @cultofdusty

      A shortlist for women with children? I suppose that would be OK if anything would.

      4:20 AM - 5 Mar 2018
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        2. Lizzy‏ @lizlozlizloz Mar 5
          Replying to @HPluckrose @ByDogHazDohDoze @cultofdusty

          I just think it’s one of the factors which AWS is based on, I think women’s biology and reproduction has been (is) the root of imbalance. It’s identity politics but in these circumstances I think they’re arguably valid.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Mar 5
          Replying to @lizlozlizloz @ByDogHazDohDoze @cultofdusty

          I don't think it is identity politics if based on a measurable disadvantage. I'd be happier with schemes to benefit people who'd lost a lot of years of potential career development to child-rearing. It needn't focus on heterosexual, cis women then even tho they'd be majority.

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