Thanks I've read that. How would you define women?
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What makes this group female? It seems like a 'logical construct': picking together assorted things (reproductive capacity, aesthetic, chromosomes), chucking these chosen items in a shopping trolley, calling it 'female'. Moreover, why does that constructed identity matter?
Nope.Nothing aesthetic about it. Sex chromosomes & reproductive capacity are not randomly 'assorted things' plucked into a trolley. Everybody's mother was female. Everybody's father was male. Every person is one of these two types even if they don't go on to be mothers or fathers
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Why does it matter? Because women are discriminated against because of their sex. So we need to be able to name that. Because women need reproductive rights. So we need to be able to name that. Because words spell boundaries for privacy & body autonomy. Because risk assessment.
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Among other aspects, one of the most baffling things in this thread has been to see you pitting women's rights and trans rights as mutually exclusive. Even worse, you seem to partly blame those who advocate for trans rights for slow/lack of progress against misogyny.
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I fear you're conflating gender (socially constructed) and sex (biological). (Also, the latter isn't as binary as you're describing, e.g. estimates of babies born intersex are as high as 1%.)
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Yes I think we should be clearer about the distinction between sex and gender. I am using male/female man/woman in relation to biological sex. Socially constructed gender roles damage both men and women, and are not inherent to being a male or female. Also intersex....
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