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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]51 pages in, I still don't understand the central argument of this debate.
If the question is, are trans women the same as cis women?
The answer is, yes trans women can identify as women (or anything else they want to) because gender is an identity.
At the same time trans women are obviously not the same as cis women biologically, just look at the difference in sex chromosomes.
To sum up, trans women are males (biologically) who identify as female (as a social gender).
Trans women share some similarities as cis women but since they are also different biologically, trans women =/= cis women.

This seems pretty simple.

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I had to read your post several times because at first you say yes, trans women can identify as women, then at the end you say transwomen are not women.

I don't quite buy the argument that gender is an identity insomuch as it is, first and foremost, a biology. That is the basis of the gender. The social construct argument wants to weaken this basis, but it is a very powerful basis that can't be ignored. See the rubbish earlier about menstruating as someone tries to circumvent basic science.

Things would be much simpler if transwomen accepted they are not women but transwomen and that the extreme advocates among them accept there are places they may not be able to use because they are reserved for biological women (women's sports, for example). They should make their peace with it. The reason the debate has become so polarizing is because trans activists have turned it into an all but nothing cause. It also doesn't help that  the angry activists tried to deplatform and cancel JK Rowling, who is otherwise sympathetic to those who feel the need to live as the opposite gender, for simply pointing out the basic reality of the science, which is why the trans activists are very much a case of emperor's new clothing.

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Cis women and trans women are the same gender (social). However, cis women and trans women are not the same sex (biological). In other words, both cis women and trans women are women but only cis women are female.
 
Acknowledging this reality does not conflict with trans rights. 
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This is not reality [/quote]

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