A man with a hormonally and surgically altered body is not a woman.
It is not bigotry to say that "woman" and "man" have precise meanings, and so do their equivalents in every known language, and those meanings arise from the biological facts of almost every animal species.
That fact that some people are profoundly uncomfortable with the…
A man with a hormonally and surgically altered body is not a woman.
It is not bigotry to say that "woman" and "man" have precise meanings, and so do their equivalents in every known language, and those meanings arise from the biological facts of almost every animal species.
That fact that some people are profoundly uncomfortable with their biological sex and would rather be the other one (or think they would, as many later change their minds) does not erase the facts of biology that underlie the meanings of words.
There is nothing bigoted about pointing to the facts of biology.
It is, however, hateful to accuse other people of having ugly motives when they do.
The facts of biology are more complicated than that. About 98% of the time, visual inspection at birth reliably identifies the unified sex/gender of the baby. The unification requires components in four areas to develop normally, both prenatally and at puberty, (1) genetics, (2) neurobiology, (3) endocrinology and 4) psychology.
A man with a hormonally and surgically altered body is not a woman.
It is not bigotry to say that "woman" and "man" have precise meanings, and so do their equivalents in every known language, and those meanings arise from the biological facts of almost every animal species.
That fact that some people are profoundly uncomfortable with their biological sex and would rather be the other one (or think they would, as many later change their minds) does not erase the facts of biology that underlie the meanings of words.
There is nothing bigoted about pointing to the facts of biology.
It is, however, hateful to accuse other people of having ugly motives when they do.
The facts of biology are more complicated than that. About 98% of the time, visual inspection at birth reliably identifies the unified sex/gender of the baby. The unification requires components in four areas to develop normally, both prenatally and at puberty, (1) genetics, (2) neurobiology, (3) endocrinology and 4) psychology.
People argued that biology proved Black people were inherently inferior. Was that not bigotry?
It is an ugly motive to deny all women the same access