If you delink 'gender' from biology what is it you think people are self identifying as? Is it something in your head/personality ('I think like a woman') or is it just a polite word for sex?
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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...
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?)...... 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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In all these contexts it is sex which matters. But Option B says there is no such thing as sex only gender identity. "[biological sex binary] bears no relation to modern scientific understandings of the expression of sexual differentiation/ patterns of gendered oppression"
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