The thing you get into with TERFs a lot is this tedious castle-in-the-air argument "But why do you have to LITERALLY BE a woman? Why couldn't someone just DRESS like a woman and ACT like a woman and so on but not say they ARE a woman?"https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1379659102259867650 …
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Look Jesse even leaving this philosophical concept of "gender identity" completely out of it that seems to make your brain smoke trying to compute it If you "let" AMAB people wear dresses and makeup and grow their hair out etc a lot of those people will also want estradiol
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It's just an obvious and observable correlation It's not a universal rule -- nothing in human nature is -- but if you actually paid attention to the history of the "trans community" rather than imagining them created from whole cloth in 2014 you wouldn't be trying to argue this
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Trying to draw this line around it -- "present your gender any way that you want, just don't challenge 'biological reality' with drugs and surgery!" -- is defending territory no one occupies
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It turns out all your fans and followers absolutely DO have a problem with "men in dresses" regardless of their position on the philosophical construct of "gender identity" and regardless of whether they've ever taken a single pill or injection And everyone but you predicted it
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yeah there's a reason the community eventually landed on "trans" as the general term! indeed, "trans" itself is a shortening of "trans*," where the missing suffix is made explicit!
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