Jk Rowling/Transphobia

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Anonymous wrote:In my biology textbook in college there was a picture of individuals with complete androgen insensitivity (this is a condition you can be born with). XY chromosomes, looked completely female. Tell me again how nature clearly delineates sex.

The exception proves the rule.

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Anonymous wrote:Her initial snarky Tweet demonstrates that she's confusing sex and gender. Including transgender people with the phrase "people who menstruate" in a WaPo op-ed isn't "erasing the concept of sex".

And then she just doubles down with BS remarks (transgender people is going to affect MS research - WTH?) and inaccuracies and faux concern.

Blech.

Her initial tweet came out when the UK was debating self-id. Basically there’s a push to allow people to simply declare themselves female and change all their legal documentation. Many women are concerned about this. Sex and gender are intertwined and it’s disingenuous to pretend they are somehow completely seperate concepts.

Intentional or not, she conflated sex and gender. And not just in a single tweet - she went on and on about it.

Given that she's an author I'm inclined to think that she knows the power of words. And by conflating sex and gender, she's basically trying to take away "trans".

She's saying female = woman, male = man. Those are the only options and you are stuck with whatever you get at birth.

Sex and gender are the same thing. I'm not sure why people feel compelled to redefine sex and gender to mean separate things. There is no biological basis for separating sex and gender. None whatsoever. Only abstract theories based on the sketchiest of information and studies.

The whole thing would be neatly resolved in trans activists can accept the biological reality and just base their arguments on free will grounds. And stop calling people who disagree with them phobics. The irony of your post is that trans activists are the ones who are very keenly aware of the power of words and their deliberately near totalitarian, divide and conquer approach to the debate.

Good god. No they are not. I wear pants, play sports, am an engineer and don't wear makeup. I am female (sex, XX chromosomes). I have masculine traits (see above). I also have feminine traits. 99% of people have both except for like weird hyper feminine women and weird hyper masculine men. Biology is sex, culture is gender.

Well, hello, and welcome to the 21st century. Not sure how you just arrived here from the 1950s, but you’ll find many female engineers who wear pants, have short hair, like sports, and even eschew makeup! And they are still female! I’m not entirely sure how people like you think that having an individual personality rather than being a Hollyweird stereotype iof a Barbie Doll woman or GI Joe man means that you have to define your gender differently than your biological sex. It’s the most illiberal bs. Have you been brainwashed by the Taliban, or by the extreme Evangelical right fringe?

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Anonymous wrote:Her initial snarky Tweet demonstrates that she's confusing sex and gender. Including transgender people with the phrase "people who menstruate" in a WaPo op-ed isn't "erasing the concept of sex".

And then she just doubles down with BS remarks (transgender people is going to affect MS research - WTH?) and inaccuracies and faux concern.

Blech.

Her initial tweet came out when the UK was debating self-id. Basically there’s a push to allow people to simply declare themselves female and change all their legal documentation. Many women are concerned about this. Sex and gender are intertwined and it’s disingenuous to pretend they are somehow completely seperate concepts.

Intentional or not, she conflated sex and gender. And not just in a single tweet - she went on and on about it.

Given that she's an author I'm inclined to think that she knows the power of words. And by conflating sex and gender, she's basically trying to take away "trans".

She's saying female = woman, male = man. Those are the only options and you are stuck with whatever you get at birth.

Sex and gender are the same thing. I'm not sure why people feel compelled to redefine sex and gender to mean separate things. There is no biological basis for separating sex and gender. None whatsoever. Only abstract theories based on the sketchiest of information and studies.

The whole thing would be neatly resolved in trans activists can accept the biological reality and just base their arguments on free will grounds. And stop calling people who disagree with them phobics. The irony of your post is that trans activists are the ones who are very keenly aware of the power of words and their deliberately near totalitarian, divide and conquer approach to the debate.

Good god. No they are not. I wear pants, play sports, am an engineer and don't wear makeup. I am female (sex, XX chromosomes). I have masculine traits (see above). I also have feminine traits. 99% of people have both except for like weird hyper feminine women and weird hyper masculine men. Biology is sex, culture is gender.

Well, hello, and welcome to the 21st century. Not sure how you just arrived here from the 1950s, but you’ll find many female engineers who wear pants, have short hair, like sports, and even eschew makeup! And they are still female! I’m not entirely sure how people like you think that having an individual personality rather than being a Hollyweird stereotype iof a Barbie Doll woman or GI Joe man means that you have to define your gender differently than your biological sex. It’s the most illiberal bs. Have you been brainwashed by the Taliban, or by the extreme Evangelical right fringe?

DP.

FYI...
female = sex
woman = gender

I'm sure the PP agrees that her sex is female. Our culture still has genders though...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Her initial snarky Tweet demonstrates that she's confusing sex and gender. Including transgender people with the phrase "people who menstruate" in a WaPo op-ed isn't "erasing the concept of sex".

And then she just doubles down with BS remarks (transgender people is going to affect MS research - WTH?) and inaccuracies and faux concern.

Blech.

Her initial tweet came out when the UK was debating self-id. Basically there’s a push to allow people to simply declare themselves female and change all their legal documentation. Many women are concerned about this. Sex and gender are intertwined and it’s disingenuous to pretend they are somehow completely seperate concepts.

Intentional or not, she conflated sex and gender. And not just in a single tweet - she went on and on about it.

Given that she's an author I'm inclined to think that she knows the power of words. And by conflating sex and gender, she's basically trying to take away "trans".

She's saying female = woman, male = man. Those are the only options and you are stuck with whatever you get at birth.

Sex and gender are the same thing. I'm not sure why people feel compelled to redefine sex and gender to mean separate things. There is no biological basis for separating sex and gender. None whatsoever. Only abstract theories based on the sketchiest of information and studies.

The whole thing would be neatly resolved in trans activists can accept the biological reality and just base their arguments on free will grounds. And stop calling people who disagree with them phobics. The irony of your post is that trans activists are the ones who are very keenly aware of the power of words and their deliberately near totalitarian, divide and conquer approach to the debate.

Good god. No they are not. I wear pants, play sports, am an engineer and don't wear makeup. I am female (sex, XX chromosomes). I have masculine traits (see above). I also have feminine traits. 99% of people have both except for like weird hyper feminine women and weird hyper masculine men. Biology is sex, culture is gender.

Well, hello, and welcome to the 21st century. Not sure how you just arrived here from the 1950s, but you’ll find many female engineers who wear pants, have short hair, like sports, and even eschew makeup! And they are still female! I’m not entirely sure how people like you think that having an individual personality rather than being a Hollyweird stereotype iof a Barbie Doll woman or GI Joe man means that you have to define your gender differently than your biological sex. It’s the most illiberal bs. Have you been brainwashed by the Taliban, or by the extreme Evangelical right fringe?

You're kidding, right? Are you this daft? PP was saying that she has masculine traits, just like 99% of women. It doesn't mean she's male. Playing sports is considered to be a masculine activity. She was arguing that the rigid thinking that women must be 100% "feminine" — meaning all have long hair, act submissive and gentle, only have hobbies like knitting, etc. — is silly. Gender is a way to describe things relating to whether they are more related to one sex or the other. PP is saying she considers herself a woman, goes by she/her and that is still consistent with having what society considers masculine traits.

Here you go:
Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, expressions and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender diverse people.

So butch dykes are still women. Their gender skews masculine but that doesn't mean they are men.