MP John-Paul Danko thinks asking “What is a woman?” is highly offensive.
To be fair, twenty or thirty years ago I would have thought the same thing, because it could only have been some kind of sarcastic response to a feminist analysis or interpretation or demand or agenda. This is not that.
Under current Canadian law if you identify as a woman you are considered to be a woman. One’s actual sex has nothing to do with it, the definition of “woman” is essentially a declaration saying you are one now. The reality of sex is still there though and remains important in contexts like rape and male violence against females.
Instead of asking about the definition of “woman”, if I was the one asking the questions I’d ask about the number of sexes. Not just for humans, just the number of sexes observed for all life forms that are considered to have a sex. I’d like to think a Canadian science advisor could give a straightforward answer to that, but I’m not quite sure they would because of the politics involved.
I suppose they could just reply that sex is a spectrum of characteristics which is true, but it’s not an answer as to how many sexes there are. Then there’s the answer that there are male, female, and intersex sexes which is wrong because intersex is just a label slapped on various disorders of sexual development (DSDs) that affect either males of females. It’s like saying humans aren’t bipedal because some may be born with only one leg. Basically, there’s a lot of category errors being made when it comes to that matter of sex, and why should there be?
I think most of you reading this know what that answer is. Sex is an inconvenient truth to gender ideology because it’s not changeable and it matters for important reasons. Whether you feel you’re the opposite sex or no sex at all or all sexes everywhere all at once is just that – a feeling. That doesn’t change what sex you are though, and why should anyone else be obliged to ignore the evidence of their own eyes and ears because someone just asserts they are what they are?
However, now under Canadian law asserting you’re a woman does oblige others to agree that you are, at least in court, because woman is considered to be a gender, not a sex. So at least in Canada you have to call your rapist “she” and refer to “her penis” because all that can be considered is one’s proclaimed gender, not sex. A man can have one, a woman can have one. Having a penis isn’t what makes you a man, it’s feeling you are a man that does.
It’s all a linguistic game that frankly needs to not be played. I don’t care if you feel feminine and are a male, just don’t expect other females to not object to a penis in a woman’s locker room for what I hope are obvious reasons. I don’t care if you feel like a woman, you can’t be a man and play in women’s sport because men have a physical advantage over women as a class, which is why we have separate sex categories in the first place.
Sex is a reality that gender tries to ignore, but it can’t, so enough already.
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