Yes, those are realities I tried to express in the article, though I will again stress that we need…

…o mention that Wittgenstein highlighted that the label we put on the thing is not the thing itself. A woman is someone who understands herself to be one, and whatever anyone else believes is their projection onto her. Define woman any other way, especially in terms of specific biology, and you start to exclude many women who are not trans.
Interesting article, yet it fails to account for two things:
 1) social perception of a person…
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Rachel Saunders
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Nov 29, 2024
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Yes, those are realities I tried to express in the article, though I will again stress that we need to separate the two meanings of "woman"--gender and sex. They are not the same.
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