So the biological reality which you say defines womanhood (i.e. gender identity), can *only* be studied in those populations where it is observable i.e. transwomen
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Replying to @MForstater @AidanCTweets
Alternatively (and occam's razor suggests this pathway). You might conclude from the fact that there is a population of men with strong feelings of wanting to be viewed as women, that this is a real phenomena deserving of study & compassion
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Replying to @MForstater @AidanCTweets
...but that drawing any conclusions about the biological reality of the large group "female people" from studying a much smaller group which does not overlap with it "male people who want to be treated as if they were female people" is unjustified
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Replying to @MForstater @AidanCTweets
I am a woman because I am female. If I was raised "as a boy" and had mutliating surgeries done to my body I would still be female and still be a woman, because it is not possible for human beings to actually change sex -- see how that works?
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Professionals who tragically thought that by surgically mutliating a child's genitalia and sterilising them that you could actually change their sex.
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