Maya Forstater

This is where we started. No, context matters. Saying "you're fat." may be (a) true and (b) inoffensive in most contexts. That doesn't mean it is inoffensive in all contexts, meaning not being a matter of dictionaries.

I appreciate the argument, but in this context saying "I reject that you get to redefine what I am" isnt quite the same as saying "you eat too much pie".

And nobody claimed that they were, I was explaining how a statement of fact can be offensive.

Hugo. This is the point. The people who find the stickers offensive (not trans people but people who see the GC view as offensive) find it offensive in *every* context. So by your formula the moral thing for GC people to do is stay quiet to avoid giving offense.

That doesn't follow, no. I think gender critical views can be expressed in a non-offensive way, and that even if they cannot, there is no moral imperative to always restrain from doing anything that offends other people.

But, and here is where we disagree, I do not think these were simply the least offensive way of expressing a gender critical view. See all the many claims of "self defence" I have heard.

But the view expressed in the stickers is that "we want our word back". How can you say this in a less offending way?

You just did.