If writing a/b a middle-aged trans woman: "Because she X, she needed a prostate exam, but local doctors were clueless." What term?
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Replying to @hardsci
Ha, sure. But I guess I'm skeptical of the idea that we don't need a way to talk about everyone who has a prostate.
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Replying to @jessesingal @hardsci
we have a way, it's "has a prostrate" or "people with prostates" or just use context.
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Replying to @lessdismalsci @hardsci
what if we wanna talk a/b the medical issues faced by all people with prostates? which in medicine they do a ton
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Replying to @jessesingal @hardsci
then biologically male doesn't work since many have had it removed.
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Replying to @lessdismalsci @hardsci
which can be totally diff from your gender ID obvs
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Replying to @jessesingal
if transphobes would stop using biological sex as a cudgel I'd be a lot more sympathetic.
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Replying to @lessdismalsci
you're a more rigorous thinker than that! Hitler using "Jew" as a cudgel doesn't render the concept non-useful
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Replying to @jessesingal
it's a useful concept, but the reason it gets heat is because the trans exclusionists use it as weapon.
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bigots don't get to drive us off of useful concepts. This is Amurrrrca
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