Also, in a majority of cases, surrogates are employed by cishet couples In many of these cases the wife is able to produce ova but unable to conceive, and is therefore the egg donor for the pregnancy So the child does not have, by your definition, a single "real mother"
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I feel like the reactionaries on this issue focus on gay men not just because they're homophobes (though that's the main reason) but because this blows up their whole philosophical objection
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Like if I took the child away from the woman they're genetically related to and gave them to the one whose uterus they gestated in I'm equally "taking them away from their mother", aren't I What a conundrum
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You seem to be using this hypothetical situation as a ‘gotcha’ but this could never happen in the first place if surrogacy was outlawed, which I believe the people you are arguing with are in favour of.
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Yes, banning something altogether so you never have to think about the definitions of words is a common TERF strategy for dealing with the complexities of the world, what of it
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Replying to @ape_bass @thecuntykind and
Hey the New Statesman were the ones who decided to interview her
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Calling a very clearly written paragraph "word salad" and acting like you can't understand it isn't helping your case the way you think it is
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Replying to @ape_bass @thecuntykind and
The New Statesman interview is not from 1998, it is from 2020, and I can understand it perfectly
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End of conversation
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