What’s relevant to being a woman
The ego-dogmatism soup here is something to behold.
Loud domineering guy tells the world that being biologically female isn’t relevant to being a woman. Not his to give away, yet again.
And, those people who have wombs, those people without whom none of us would exist, are women. That’s the word for them. If the Matt Dillahuntys and Adrian Harrops succeed in their efforts to make that word not mean “the ones with wombs” then we’ll just have to get a new word which will mean the same thing. What’s the point of that? We already have the word. If the Harrahuntys want a word that means “men who playact being women” they should get a new one instead of stealing ours.
There are a lot of scornful quote tweets.
Sometimes it seems like everyone secretly agrees on 95% of these issues but is just using words differently.
Dillahunty agrees trans women aren’t what he calls “biological” women. Get him to accept that there are some spaces that should be reserved for biological women, and then it’s all semantics.
The whole gender vs. sex thing drives me crazy. The vast majority of the populace uses those words as synonyms and has no idea there’s a big distinction in academia. The distinction was apparently popularized by that creep John Money.
And it doesn’t seem really fleshed out. People will say you can change your gender but not your sex. So a sexed female is a woman and a sexed male is a man. A gendered female and a gendered male are what then? Maybe if we had different terms for those, then we could use words that would make everyone happy. I don’t think “trans*” would be the terms since they could also apply to those with matching sex and gender.
And what’s the point anyway? Does the concept of gender add much? People are one sex or the other, and there are some things traditionally or stereotypically associated with each sex, but is that really “gender”? It seems to give it too much legitimacy. Let a man wear a dress, but do we need to say it’s a gender change?
Here’s Jane Clare Jones on the matter of gender making it clear that gender is a concept that oppresses women as a class based on their sex. It’s a useful corrective to the gender nonsense from the likes of Dillahunty.
https://twitter.com/janeclarejones/status/1465956114881724416