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"By gender they mean sex"...This Oxfam research & campaign against 'sexual & gender based violence' on public transport reflects the tension international orgs are under in their thinking on sex and genderhttps://twitter.com/AnamParvezButt/status/1159086324277792768 …
The report 'Smashing the Spacial Patriarchy' talks about "women, girls and transgender and gender non-conforming people" being sexually harassed on buses. Which makes sense - different groups but both getting harassment
What it doesn't do is redefine women as an identity in order to consider the oppression of transgender males. It doesn't talk about "sex (or gender) is a spectrum". It doesn't call Sri Lankan women "cis-women", with "cis privilege" or present "transwomen" as a subset of women
It does get itself confused where it suggests that the reason 'transwomen' (Sri Lanka like other S Asian countries has a third gender tradition) get harassment is because of not fitting female roles (travelling w children) rather than because they are males not fitting male roles
But in general it inhabits a world which recognises that there are two sexes, and women and girls face oppression because of the way society treats people with female bodies.
This worldview is becoming increasingly taboo in North America and the UK, and amongst people with fancy gender studies degrees. For international orgs and funders this is a tension. It cannot be that "women" is defined as an identity in one place and material reality in another!
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