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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I use the term woman and you knew exactly what I meant

I didn't actually, I wrote that to probe out what you actually meant because I was giving you the benefit of the doubt.

A blonde woman is a description of a woman’s hair colour and you know this.

And trans/cis is a descriptions of whether a woman was assigned female at birth or not. Woman is not synonymous with cis woman.

They have different names, which you yourself, use for a reason.

You give them different names, I'm using adjectives because the distinction matters in this context.

‘adult human female’ is not a dog whistle. It’s a legal and common-sense definition

It really isn't. When you meet someone irl, you brain doesn't decide if it thinks they are a man or woman based on their chromosomes or some bioessentialist bs, it does it based of social ques because man/woman are social categories.

I am not denying the legitimacy of transwomen [sic]; nor is Keir.

But also:

This is exactly the same as saying transwomen [sic] are not women, because they are not. They are transwomen [sic].

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 points 18 hours ago

I'll probably fuck my terminology up here, forgive me, I try. Questions I have:

Are there a lot of people who look at other people's genitals in public toilets?

Can these people be arrested because I think they might be perverts and I don't want them looking at my kids?

Are people going to have to start showing their genitals to security guards?

Has someone given security guards the right to demand to see people's genitals?

How the fuck does that even work when someone's had gender reassignment surgery?

Presumably trans men must now use the women's toilets?

Does someone who's had gender reassignment surgery need to bring their full medical history with them in order to prove they're using the "correct" toilet?

Not aimed particularly at you flamingos - just questions that are coming to mind reading this thread.

Seems to me this would be a lot simpler if people would just stop looking at other people's genitals in toilets uninvited.