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It is important in the context of sociology/history/biology, basically all of human history. [b]Women are in many many ways defined by their sex organs and reproductive systems.[/b]  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]

Let's stop doing that.

Not that it's particularly on-topic, but I do think it's interesting that most of the angst and horror about transgender people seems to be about transwomen (people who were assigned male at birth and who live (or want to live) their lives as women). Nobody is angsty and horrified about transmen (people who were assigned female at birth and who live (or want to live) their lives as men). [/quote]

Perhaps that is because men haven't been habitually persecuted throughout human history and don't have major political movements and efforts revolving around their access to equal pay and fair healthcare. So therefore they aren't bothered when some people start identifying as male because that person's issues and motivations don't effect or take away from anything involving men's advocacy. Whereas trying to come in and define women in a way that doesn't include our reproductive systems takes away from the ESSENTIAL and important efforts to fight restricted access to reproductive healthcare. No one was really team Rachel Dolezal, primarily because she tried to make black advocacy issues HER issues when they were not.[/quote]

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