Jarhyn
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- Natural Philosophy, Game Theoretic Ethicist
And that explains why using sportswoman to refer to gender by a university student club is such a crime? If this person had become a transwoman for no other reason than to get to the Olympics, I’d say your rant is a a persuasive argument. However, in this case, it appears to me from what little I have read, that Laurel Hubbard is sincere about her (yes her) gender. So, I think your rant is misplaced and unpersuasive.
Gender is not sex. Women are discriminated against, oppressed, treated as less-than, etc. on the basis of our sex. Just as black americans are discriminated against, oppressed, and treated as less-than on the basis of their skin color.
If a white person were to genuinely and sincerely identify as black, do you think that should entitle that 'assigned white at birth' person to honors and recognitions intended to recognize the accomplishments of black people, simply because they sincerely and genuinely feel themselves to be black? Do you think that transracial person will have actually experienced the challenges and barriers that black people face? What if they lived as a white person for the first 30 years of their life, and then transitioned to a black identity so they could live as their real selves?
So you are saying that every man who discriminates against you oppresses you, treats you different undresses you and examines your breasts and vagina first?
Or they do it on the basis of "apparent qualities", appearance, and seeming?
People discriminate against what they can see. In fact, we have you and metaphor much more clearly proclaiming that you wish to assume sex.
To me, this seems much like conservative arguments that the government doesn't work because they broke it.
Gender only does not work because you are in here breaking it.
Do you think that people "who don't look black" are having there genetics tested today? Or whether it is the seeming of it that makes the reality of the treatment; that there is a way in which you "treat people black" yourself based on seeming.
But that isn't really what this is about.
You are yourself admitting there are accolades and rights you believe to be sex-locked. You wish to discriminate and treat others as different on the basis of their sex alone rather on the basis of individual differences.