Another woman barred from Twitter's public square. Legal scholar @AlessandraAster suspended indefinitely for criticising the ethics of medical experiments transplanting wombs into male bodiespic.twitter.com/d9hkfVpCVQ
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This person appears to be arguing that because their hypothetical risk factors of experiencing these particular female hardships are nil, they should not be treated as women?
No. She is not (she is not here having been thrown off twitter so i'll take the liberty of saying what i think she is saying). She is saying that being a woman is a material reality. There are specific risks and vulnerabilities associated with that material reality, and...
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... therefore there are specific (hard fought for) legal protections for women as a sex. These are not based on 'gender identity' - you cannot identify into or out of these specific risks & vulnerabilities so they should remain tied to the material reality of sex.
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You ask whether transwomen should be 'treated like women'. Sure, if by that you mean treated as human beings, fully equal to any other, free to wear what they like, not bullied or harassed.
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