Coherent guidance for practitioners
Finally.
It is great to see straightforward, non ideological, answers to common questions that have respect for established science and the paucity of evidence around gender incongruity. pic.twitter.com/uWyDZVITcf
— Andy Lewis (@lecanardnoir) March 29, 2019
“It is not possible to change biological sex.”
It takes only eight words.
“There is no agreed scientific basis for someone having the mind of someone from the opposite sex or being born in the wrong body.”
Bam.
It would be nice to go a bit further…there is no agreed scientific basis for assuming the the sexes have different minds.
But…a great document.
I think that wording is because it addresses thr pervasive claim that trans women have “a woman’s brain in a man’s body” [and vv for trans men, but they’re a lot quieter].
Haven’t they already weaseled around that one with their claim that a transwoman has been biologically female from birth, and anybody claiming the contrary are placing waaay too much emphasis on genitals? Besides, the words ‘biological’ sex are just that, words, and words are a social construct ergo biological sex is a social construct ergo shut up, transphobe.
Yeah, cool, but what we really need is a language style guide written by an ecologist…
Holms, I’m sort of busy right now, but if you’ll give me a couple of weeks, I’ll get right on that. ;-)
Nothing in the quoted article supports your opposition to trans women being real women.
It was written by a CIS male who has no idea of what it is like to be a woman in a man’s body and how I feel about myself and that I really want to be a Lesbian coz all the cool comedians are lesbians but they won’t have sex with me because they don’t like the dick.
/snark
also useful https://theelectricagora.com/2019/03/01/some-things-to-keep-in-mind-when-engaging-with-the-gender-identity-debate/
The third and fourth paras in the left hand column are word salad.
Now I wish I had preserved the quote: ‘I realized I wasn’t a boy, I was a feminist.’
Anyone else remember?