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Originally Posted by jadis
Beautifully put.
Yet what makes this indeterminacy possible is that sex is one of the two poles here.
Once you "make it more flexible by including trans," you're by necessity discarding sex and are left with gender alone, which happens to be the exact goal of trans activism. My views on why this is ill-advised are known. It's not about flexibility but about power. |
If one insist on having one single definition of women, then yes, allowing for gender in that definition necessarily excludes sex. But in practice, we use two definitions of 'woman', one about gender and one about sex, and as long as we keep doing that carefully enough many of the problems you are worried about are resolved.