"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 …
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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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I think it can so long as it is generally accepted when and where each definition is used. Frivolous example - competitive - this means something very different in economics as it does in the "real world". Also is berry. Raspberries are not actually berries but cucumbers are!
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The key thing is that when we need to define a protected or at risk group - the default becomes using the biological definition
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I agree that words can have different meanings, but I disagree that we only draw the line at vulnerability. I draw it at applying the idea that "woman is an identity" to the 50% of the population that are female in order respect the <1% of males who claim women as their identity
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I often think that it would be much easier if we could just use different words. "Ladies/chicks/girls (when referring to the adult)" for when you want to refer to the identity and "women/females" for the biological (real) definition. e.g. "Transladies are ladies" does not jar!
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