What do mean by the terms male and female when you say that?
That’s not how the terms have been used by anyone until very, very recently. Before that, almost everyone used the terms to describe adult human males, and adult human females.
I’m confident, but not certain, that you know the square root of fuck all about Scotland, and the people behind For Women Scotland, and Scottish Lesbians.
Why is it so hard to take a woman's word for it when she tells you who and what she is? It's not the 16th century anymore, female testimony is considered valid now, no thumbscrews required.
Then why can't you define it effectively and convincingly? You yourself have appealed to governmental defitions, chromosomal definitions, anatomical definitions, and "feelings" in this thread alone, and are unable again and again to explain the inconsistencies that arise when trying to apply any of the above. You just say that the exceptions and ambiguities "aren't important", which is not a real answer, especially not on a question of fact rather than ideology.
Nope. You are thinking of sex as strictly a reproductive function and furthermore you are gripping hard onto that one single aspect of sex in order to make your point but at the same time, you do not so tightly embrace sex as the sole, major or even relevant factor in other aspects of being human. Women are more than child bearers and nurturers and in fact some of us never do either, out of choice or because of luck—bad or good. Men are more than sperm donators or bread winners. They may be neither by choice or by luck, good or bad.
A person's sex is not always as clear cut as you wish to believe.
Human sex is not binary. No matter how much you wish human sex to be binary, it isn't.
Why should their sex matter more than their gender, in the application of the law? Biological sex matters to your fertility doctor, but there is no reason why a person should be forced to disclose it to anyone else. Not their business. Society is built around gender perceptions and expectations, not sex. At least not around biological sex, which most assume but few people actually know in any objective sense. Even if you were right about biological sex being strictly binary (though of course you are not) it would still be the case that interpreting any law as applying exclusively to biological sex, however you define that is making new law, which as I understand it a British judge is absolutely not permitted to do. I've read this ruling through now, they don't offer any clear definition or rubric of biological sex either. In fact, the way they seem to define it is the same way you tried to define it upthread before realizing the position was indefensible and abandoning it: documentary evidence. And birth certfiicates are written by men, not genes or pheremones. Signing a document is a social exhange. By definition, only gender, not sex, can be produced by social interactions.
Have you not read the thread? I understand it's 43 pages, but you came in here insisting on definitions... GO FIND THEM.
Largely it doesn't matter because beyond a very particular effect on an egg that only happens after a huge number of other events, sperm and eggs are not behaviorally significant.
It's absolutely how the terms have been used throughout most of time, and the understanding most people had through most of time was just simply garbage.
Oh I'm plenty familiar with TERFS.
It’s always male or female.
The last refuge of the ideologue is stamping their foot and saying "If I don't believe it, it's not true no matter how much evidence is presented to me. Everything I do believe is simple, so why doesn't everyone just agree with me?"
So saying that sex in humans is binary, and that in some circumstances female humans are entitled to spaces free from male humans, is the equivalent of being a Nazi?
Where have you ever seen him use them interchangeably?
Show you work.
You are doing nothing to dispel the notion that it's revenge. You speak of taking turns--but there are no turns. Each person faces it once. The only way you can take turns is by lumping people with those who share some attribute. And that's discrimination.
Transwomen who have undergone a complete transformation have no gender issues. The fact you have gender issues does not mean they have gender issues. It is demeaning to generalize in that fashion.
It doesn't make you a Nazi, but within our current political system, it necessarily puts you in bed with them. If not for the rise of neo-fascism, we would not be having this conversation to begin with. This and immigration are the wedge issues they have chosen to use to break the spine of the centrist left, and you've fallen for the gambit hook, line, and sinker.
One just did.
What’s the evidence to the contrary?
Not as unhinged as stomping one's foot and claiming a falsehood is a fact.
