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Highlights
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Science cannot resolve whether we should choose to apply gender categories based on genitalia, chromosomes, secondary sex characteristics, self-identification, the performance of social roles, or the perception of others.
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Wynn points out that saying a trans woman is “not a woman” because of biology is like saying adoptive parents are “not really someone’s parents” because they are not blood relations of their children. It is fallacious, pure and simple. It assumes that the definition of the word “parents” is handed to us from on high, that there is some fixed rule in the universe prohibiting us from using it to refer to people who have a social rather than a biological relationship with their children.
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Walsh worries about trans women having an advantage in women’s sports, but doesn’t stop to wonder whether they would have a disadvantage in men’s sports, or whether trans men should compete in men’s sports. He thinks trans women pose an assault risk in women’s bathrooms (a lie) but does not care whether forcing trans women to use the men’s room might increase the risk that they are assaulted.
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he says that asking someone to use your preferred pronoun is like asking them to use your preferred adjectives, and that his adjectives are brilliant and handsome. But surely it’s more like asking someone to use your preferred noun, which we already do every day.)