Harry Hindu

Sure we categorize the world with words. Sex is an anatomical category, not a social identity. "Sex" refers to those differences of anatomy and their ...

How is that detailed? How does one move from one circle to another? You're not answering my questions and it looks pitiful. :roll: Just give up fdrake...

That didn't answer the question! You have a serious problem with answering questions. How does one change their gender - by changing their sex, cultur...

Then why did you say that male is a gender identity? You simply won't answer the question directly because you won't admit that you got confused with ...

This isn't the argument that has been made. Go back and read the definitions provided by fdrake. It doesn't make that kind of distinction. Fdrake's de...

You just said that both "man" and "male" are gender identities. So you're saying that sex and gender are the same thing and they are both social const...

Look at the bold text. Is "male" and "female" sex or gender? Is "man" and "woman" sex or gender? You said that the female is a sex but male is a gende...

Even here, you are talking about changing one's sex, not gender. Male and female are sexes according to you. You seem to be confusing your own distinc...

Huh -what? It is necessarily implied by your argument. I pointed it out with your quote. Are you blind?

Gender, as defined by your source, is a shared assumption. She identifies with an shared assumption, but her assumption isn't shared by others. Incohe...

I never said it was a choice. Having a mental or social disorder isn't a choice. Being born a man or woman isn't a choice. It was Artemis that was men...

I'm trying to look for it but I saw something where before the Industrial Revolution the trend was cooling, but the current rise could offset the next...

Then it would be subjective. The issue is scientific.

Not to mention that she's not an authority on the topic, and her frontal lobe isn't fully developed yet. But kids are great pawns to use to influence ...

Sure. Universities are full of cracks, not to mention quacks.

Then at that point you've crossed the line to it being biological. Actually, now that I think about it, that equates to disowning the social construct...

If gender is a social construction that is being rejected by an individual, then that makes that individual non-gendered. Just as you disowning your s...

We already went over Google's definition of "man" and "woman" which refers to biological states, not social constructions. So I'm using the same sourc...

Your use of "mystical" says it all. Is gender some supernatural, magical thing now? I can reject mystical things simply based on the fact that there i...

I never said there wasn't one. I said that they're different types of relationships - genetic and social - and that we're not talking about the same o...

We're talking about two different kinds of familial relationships. My point was that you don't need a government or culture to create the biological f...

Privileges are based on values. It is only a privilege if you value it. Values are subjective. or (d) don't include the detriments of one class or eth...

Well, if privileges don't exist for you then no wonder you don't see it as an ethical issue. It seems to me that you're admitting that privileges are ...

Ok, so we agree that privileges exist. So what? How is that helpful? What do you want to do with this information that privileges exist? Should others...

So trans people aren't men or women, they are trans. You can't say that trans have a commonality of experience with men or women, only other trans. Th...

Sure, I'll grant that, but what does that have to do with what frdake said, or this topic? You're talking about legalities. I'm talking about genetics...

:lol: You can't disown genetics. I did use that term, right - "genetics"? Yep, so either you're not paying attention, or you're building straw-men.

So is it wrong to shame people, or for people to be ashamed, for being born a particular color or not? Would you agree that shaming one group to bring...

This isn't a correction because you didn't read 's question, which asks how can one be part of a family one is born into. I didn't understand the ques...

"Privilege" has to do with ethics and if there is no objective morality then Is "privilege" a subjective term? In China there's Chinese privilege. In ...

Sure. Thats why I posted again in response to the same quote by Banno: In Richard Dawkin's book, The Selfish Gene, he explains how intelligent social ...

I dont understand the point of your question. To be "part of a family" entails a physical, biological relationship with others, which is the case rega...

Exactly. There have to be these binary archetypes existent in a cultures for there to someone who might want to play the opposite archetype. Eliminate...

Sounds like a true libertarian response. Let the people, not the government, treat cheaters how they should be treated.

Right. Punish people who don't do as they ought. How is this different than fining or taxing for a privilege which Hanover suggested. Shunning people ...

I was a believer earlier in my life but part of the reason for converting to atheism was the fact that there were so many definitions and beliefs in G...

You need to define gender in order to define transgenders and where they are. Is gender a feeling or is it a social construction? Why would trans peop...

Sure you do. You are skeptical of so many claims on this forum, yet you aren't skeptical of someone's claim that they are a woman when they were born ...

For most people there isnt one. The difference is as imaginary as the sex transgenders believe they are. For the transgenders there isn't a difference...

Isn't that what "inappropriate" means? Nonconforming? It is inappropriate or appropriate based on the culture you find yourself in. That isn't to say ...

Society treats the child the way the parents dress and refer to the child. The parents determine how society treats the child. Just go look ar Dr. Mon...

If parents are raising their children in gender-neutral environment then they arent stressing any particular way of dressing as being man or woman bec...

Children that young aren't making decisions about their gender. It is their parents. Just look at the case of Dr. Money who was the originator of the ...

LOL. It isn't okay, but transgenders reinforce those social roles everytime they claim wearing a dress makes them a woman and then attempts to change ...

Or just tell them the truth like we do anorexic patients. You're not fat, so stop trying to use extreme methods of losing weight. You're not a woman, ...

I would say that scales are comparisons of properties. The comparison exists in our mind, but the propeties we compare are independent of our minds. W...

How else could they explain their existence? They certainly couldnt have thought that they came about by "random" or purposeless forces. Most people c...

Humans are inherently self-centered. Without logic and reason to check our special view of ourselves we usually invest in ideas that make us special, ...

There can be no perspective without a mind. I defined perspective as an awareness via the senses. If something doesn't have senses, how can it have a ...

I dont understand this definition. A perspective and perceiving seem to be completely unrelated things to you. That isn't how I understand perception ...