Contributing to policy discussions
The stupid is up past our upper lips now. Drowning is imminent.
The census could ask “do you menstruate?” instead of “are you female?” to be inclusive of transgender people, a taxpayer-funded study has suggested.
One, how fucking insulting.
Two – are they serious? Spot the flaw? Women over 50 or so don’t menstruate, so if they answer truthfully, the census won’t be a census. (There are also women who’ve had hysterectomies etc.)
The Future of Legal Gender Project, led by King’s College London, has assessed how legal sex would be abolished in England and Wales and replaced with a single “gender” category, with an aim of contributing to policy discussions.
Contributing what to policy discussions? An inability to talk about women and policy? What kind of “contribution” would that be?
The study, which received £579,717 of taxpayer funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, acknowledged the concerns from campaigners who argue biological sex provides vital binary data, and that trans women are not women.
But the research said that in surveys such as the census, respondents understand the question on their sex in different ways – some “assume the question is about their genitals, about their legal status or about the sex they were registered as having at birth”.
Oh shut up. No they don’t – not unless they’re nitwits or fanatics bent on making their stupid “point.” People know perfectly well what the census means by female/male.
As a result, the researchers said: “In some contexts, more precise questions may help to avoid distortions or inaccuracies, for example, ‘do you menstruate?’ or ‘are you perceived or treated as a man at work?’ rather than, or in addition to, ‘are you male or female?’.”
That’s not more precise. Would you like to know what it is? I’ll tell you. It’s much much much much much much less precise.
In their final report last month, the seven academics who carried out the study from KCL, Kent and Loughborough universities added: “For medical purposes, good practice means asking questions at a higher level of specificity. ‘Are you menstruating?’ rather than: ‘what is your sex?’”
Woman age 60 replies No. Higher level of specificity achieved!!
And where law mentions gendered physical processes, the researchers suggested it could say “gestational or birth parent rather than mother or woman – this recognises that people other than women also become pregnant”.
So it recognizes a stupid childish lie. There are no “people other than women” who become pregnant.
What is wrong with everyone.
An acquaintance recently spoke of an argument with a stranger who stated, perhaps naively, “If you don’t have a womb, you’re not a woman.” The point of the stranger being, obviously, that women are biologically different from men. But of course the acquaintance and her friends were all over this reductionist view of women, saying that it declares women who had hysterectomies as non-women.
I’m trying to figure out why this same basic argument is both inclusive and exclusive of men-who-claim-to-be-women, comparing the OP and the post I mentioned. I think it’s this: you can’t use the word “woman” in such a way that it does not also refer to men-who-claim-to-be-women; you can make biological distinctions, so long as you don’t attach it to the word “woman”. Disconnect “woman” and biology entirely.
Census Taker: “Are you perceived or treated as a man at work?”
Bob: “Oh … god … no. They don’t. They really don’t. It’s like I’m ignored all the time, just dirt under their feet. They never give me a break, blame me, look down on me. I .. I’m going to have to leave now. I’m sorry. I need to think.”
Not more efficient, but it makes for a more caring, sensitive government.
But when I provide a definition of “woman” the TRAs accuse me of reducing women to their reproductive parts, and then claim that a woman past menopause, a woman who has had a hysterectomy, a woman who has never had the ability to conceive are not women according to the definition I provided.
consistency- identifying as whatever I want it to mean today.