What is a woman?

in lgbtq •  last month 

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07ev1v7r4po.amp

I’m 100% in favor of full human rights for trans people, but I have two problems with the case in the article:

1: I believe that women should be able to have at least some sex-segregated spaces. Is an online forum one of them? Maybe.

2: More importantly: the declaration that it is possible to change sex, at the current stage of technology, flies in the face of reality. Gender is perfectly fluid, and subject to occasional change, but biological sex? We can no more alter our sex than we can alter out taxonomic family. (Again, at the current stage of technology)

The acceptance of trans people as coequals in society should not come at the expense of facts. We can be supportive of the full inclusion of trans people without pretending that sex is mutable. Plastic surgery to help people overcome gender dysphoria doesn’t change sex any more than lasering off every last bit of hair and having a double mastectomy would change the fact that we are all mammals.

In general, I think we should all (and I mean all, both trans and cis people) be uncomfortable with political policy that attempts to ignore or redefine away physical reality. (Another example of this is anti-abortion laws that seek to “save” an ectopic pregnancy)

If anything I’ve just said sounds remotely “right wing”, I urge you to re-read I’d and then have a good, long think.

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