There's nothing "post-modern" about this. It's just science.
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Replying to @theAliceRoberts @RCollumbell and
Do you mean it's difficult to determine the sex of many skeletons or are you really suggesting that there is evidence many are of indeterminate biological sex? the latter answer wouldn't just be post-modern it would actually be untrue.
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Replying to @TwisterFilm @RCollumbell and
Well, I only have the skeleton to look at, and no idea of the lived experience of sex and gender of those individuals. But sex is not strictly binary, after all.http://www.annefaustosterling.com/fields-of-inquiry/gender/ …
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Replying to @theAliceRoberts @RCollumbell and
Unintended result of your promotion of trans ideology (I speak as a gay man) is that discovery of a female skeleton which sheds new light on achievements of women in past is now being used to argue that skeleton is actually trans. Women written out of history. Again.
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Replying to @TwisterFilm @RCollumbell and
I don't seek to promote any ideology, just to make sure science isn't misrepresented and misused to justify certain political ends. And biological essentialism is especially dangerous - having been used variously to excuse racist, homophobic and anti-trans ideology in the past.
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Replying to @janeclarejones @TwisterFilm and
Very 1984. Anyway, any use of biology to excuse bigotry is not fine by me.
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Replying to @theAliceRoberts @janeclarejones and
None of us want to excuse bigotry. Please listen. We're just trying to make people take women's rights into account as well as those of trans people, rather than assuming that being kind to one group has no consequences for another. It blatantly does. There needs to be balance.
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Replying to @egipam @janeclarejones and
Can't we be kind to everyone? Is there not enough kindness to go round? Don't pull up the drawbridge on civil rights. And don't try to use science to help you close that door.
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Yes we can be kind, but if fairness was as simple as 'be kind to everyone' we wouldn't need laws and rules. For example rules that allow women's sports are based on biology, and exclude (until recently) males. It is not bigotry, or unkindness to exclude males from women's sports.
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Replying to @MForstater @theAliceRoberts and
The same rule that excludes Caster Semenya from women’s athletics will also exclude some trans women. What’s wrong with that?
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