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So, 'dogs have four legs' 'horses have four legs' '[b]women have a uterus'[/b] 'men have a penis' 'chimpanzees have a tail' are all factually incorrect?

Or do we now have to attach the word most/all to any declarative statement?

How do you refer to the qualities of a species globally?[/quote]

Do you have the faintest idea how common hysterectomies are?   [/quote]

That is kind of my point. Even in cases like that, where there are a significant subset of women who no longer have their uterus, it is still a defining trait of being a woman (or people with an XY chromosome) to have a reproductive system. When you are talking about the human species, how it exists and grows etc etc the two sex structure is essential. And the differences between them are basically all about reproduction when it comes down to it.[/quote]

So now its not "women have a uterus"  but "women have a reproductive system" ?  Is a woman with uterus more of  a woman than one without?  How about a woman who has her uterus removed but keeps her fallopian tubes?

Or how about people just drop this?   What is the context where defining who is a woman important? Are you a physician?  A statistician?  Or are you just trying to justify picking on a group of vulnerable people?[/quote]

It is important in the context of sociology/history/biology, basically all of human history. Women are in many many ways defined by their sex organs and reproductive systems.  It is what makes us vulnerable, it is the defining rights that are constantly in danger of being stripped from us. And yes some of that is societal, but societal pressures that are inextricably woven into our biology.

I do not pick on transgendered people at all, I think they should be allowed to live their lives however they want to live their lives. Like I said earlier I have a transgendered relative who I treat exactly the way I treated her before her transition. I don't care if they want to call themselves a woman or a man. But they don't get to change the definition of what a woman is or what a man is to address the plight of a small subset of the population with a medical condition. If there was no real difference between men and women then why on earth do transgendered people feel so intensely focused on identifying as one or the other. The very definition of the transgendered condition speaks to the real differences between the sexes. If it was all a bucket of societal changes, then no one would feel so compelled to change their bodies and appearances so drastically.[/quote]

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