This thread is essential reading for everyone but I think @MForstater would find it especially useful.https://twitter.com/chasestrangio/status/1105859324285468675 …
"The implication, then, is that there are people who think they are one gender and those that really are." No. There are people who believe in innate gender and people who don't. I don't think women have an innate gender. Everyone has their own personality. Everyone has a sex.
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You aren’t engaging with this substantively. How do you define biology? If my testosterone levels are as high as someone born with a penis how would you classify me? What if I had xy chromosomes but was assigned female at birth? What about trans men who decide to become pregnant?
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Human beings develop along two different pathways in utero. Male & Female. Usually XX chromosomes result in a female baby (not always, in rare cases the SRY gene which is normally found on the Y chromosome gets translocated to an X. (1/)
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Above all why are you so invested in the idea that biological, binary sex exists? How does believing otherwise actually undermine our (presumably shared) feminist goals and aspirations?
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Because I think that women have been oppressed and discriminated against because of their sex. I don't think it's because of their identity or what they wear. And sex materially exists. Protection of women's rights were hard won, and on the basis of sex
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