Well if you don't have a binary on biology, getting a defined idea of woman by belief is surely impossible. What is a woman?
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Replying to @hughgmeechan @zaelefty
We don't even have a binary on the biological definitions of "alive" and "dead," yet we understand the concepts well enough to use them, don't we? Making sure the definition of a word is simple and universal just isn't that important to the word having meaning.
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Replying to @hughgmeechan @zaelefty
For the purpose of communicating to other people, "adult human who identifies as a woman" or "adult human who agrees with others identifying her as a woman" works fine. It's a very socially contingent sort of word.
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This sounds an awful lot like "I have no problem with gay people getting civil partnerships and calling themselves married, but the DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE doesn't need to change!!!!"
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Replying to @amalgamary @eva_kurilova and
Like, this isn't that complicated. Trans women are adult human females too. Just be slightly less uptight about everything needing a cast-iron tightly-bounded definition with no exceptions or irregularities.
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Replying to @amalgamary @eva_kurilova and
Ok, gonna need a word for my reproductive role then. If not female, what?
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Replying to @FondOfBeetles @eva_kurilova and
You actually want a word specifically for your reproductive role? Like...something that means person-who-can-gestate-embryo-to-term?
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Aka a female.
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