if you delink gender from biology, people who self-identify as women are overwhelmingly the same people as those who are biologically female. This just amounts to observing that only a small percentage of the population is trans.
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Because in most contexts it's better to treat trans women as women rather than as men? I mean better as in not making people's lives miserable.
I just mean it's "your Option" as in you are putting it on the table, so I'd like you to define it. Is it a thing (in which case what kind of thing) or is it a language game, for the purpose of an assumed greater good?
The question is does option B put together two sets of people "some women" + "some not women" and call the new category "women" (why? for what end?)...Beyond social niceties (use whatever name people want etc..) in general we/ institutions should treat men and women the same - not discriminate based in sex. In most contexts don't treat men & women, boys & girls differently...
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... There are a few situations where the law (in UK) allows orgs to treat men & women differently eg for privacy and dignity in situations of bodily contact/vulnerability with strangers, in sports, in healthcare, in communal accomadation, prisons, women's refuges, rape crisis etc
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Right and some of these are contexts where sex may be more sensible referent than self-identified gender.
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I kinda feel that "social niceties" might not do justice to the ways society can make your life tremendously miserable if you're a trans woman but hell I'm way out of my know whereof I speak zone.
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