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Women and LGBTQ+ people take up guns after Trump’s win: ‘We need to protect ourselves’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Right, and 'biological sex' is used as an exclusionary weapon that affects material policies.
There's people assigned female at birth with those chromosomes. Are they 'biologically male or female'? That's a rhetorical question. The point is sex assigned at birth is a more accurate term for what is put on people's birth certificates. Because sex assignment, and by proxy gender assignment, is based in sociology, not biology. And transphobes love using the argument from nature to justify real world policies and discrimination based on this sociological phenomenon.
If you're an ally, please listen to the folks living this and think critically about your own positions regarding these two terms. There's a lot of excellent literature on the topic and right now more than ever we need solidarity, not more skepticism.
Just because someone is living this doesnt mean they have a full understanding of things. Skepticism is important, even more so from allies since they have the same goals.
Just because a transphobe has said something doesnt mean someone else saying a similar thing has the same intent.
I find it odd that this group thats trying so hard to stop being an out group, is one of the most aggressive at banning/labelling peolle and placing them into an out group.
Yeah, I think the person that called it hate speech in the beginning was stretching and that it wasn't helpful.
It's far to commonly used, and much of society still thinks about gender and sex in the binary. But our society is also structured off these binaries and it causes issues for people who don't neatly fit in the boxes.
But what's the this group shit? I'm part of that group and I have been assuming good faith and acting in good faith. Please don't stereotype. And try to understand trans people are trying not to lose their healthcare and to have basic rights. Some of us are going to be more prickly than others.