3 hours ago
Groomer-iarize wrote:I've said this before but the 'biological sex' nonsense hurts me as a trans person *and* as someone with a science degree. Any scientist reading that nonsense should see that this definition hasn't come from science, and is inherently unscientific. I'm fairly confident that biologists were as absent in these hearings as trans people were.
The judges and their ilk claim it's a biological reality when in fact it's a single doctor's best guess given that they're only given two options in the first place. The line doesn't stop being arbitrary simple because the large majority fall clearly on one side or the other of it. That isn't biology. That isn't scientific fact. Science has made some attempts to explore trans identities to better understand them, because like all things science delves into, trans identities are an observed reality. Beyond that, intersex people are indisputably real, and while you can indeed write a binary definition of gender, it serves no useful function other than to push transphobia.
And even then it is legally lacking, because it gets you to things like trans men being told to use women's restrooms and the transphobes obviously don't want that. The reality of the methodology they use to determine gender is 'we should get to tell other people what their gender is, they shouldn't get to determine it for themselves'.
Nonbinary or trans woman, same difference.
He flips the switch whenever he needs to make a point. "As a Nonbinary......" or "As a trans woman..."
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