Can you define it? You are asking to replace a perfectly good definable, objectively, observable thing - sex - with something subjective and undefined.
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I can't pretend to understand what it's like to be born in a male body and really feel like that's the wrong gender but I believe it's a real thing that should be respected not shat on on grounds of your preferences regarding analytical categories.
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?)...Male bodies are not just analytical categories Paddy. Male bodies are real risk factors to people w female bodies. Yes society should support people w gender dysphoria, but not at the cost of women's safety, privacy, dignity, autonomy, in situations where they expect all females
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No, but some of the "what even is this gender identity nonsense?" above comes over that way. I reckon it's possible to hold position sex is what matters in a few contexts, whilst giving more credit to notion of gender as identity.
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Any discussion of when a person's sex is salient and when it might be appropriate to treat a cross-sex gender identity as if it was equivalent to being the opposite sex has got to start w clear concepts.
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