So why is that? Prima facie there’s no good reason to treat people with an XX karyotype and people with an XY karyotype differently. Outside of any me...
One can psychologically identify as belonging to the social and cultural group that is usually occupied by the opposite biological sex. And words like...
What does that mean? If “woman” means “biologically female” then to act like a woman is to act biologically female. But what does it mean to act biolo...
Even if that were true, that has nothing to do with how laws work. They could have written the law in this way: A1. At least 50% of the board must be ...
Call it whatever you like. A random stranger in the same room isn’t going to be able to tell the difference between a natural and an artificial set of...
The law could have instead been written as: Which was their intention when they wrote the law. Unfortunately for them it was written a different way: ...
No. It includes those with a GRC and is why the issue was raised. Scottish Women Ltd argued that that inclusion is contrary to the EA 2010 and that th...
Are these supposed to be related questions? Because the Supreme Court didn't rule on whether or not anyone's rights were endangered. They only ruled t...
The very first line of the very first link: "Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), w...
That's precisely the problem, and is what I brought up on page 8: So let's not use the words "man", "woman", "male", or "female" at all, and ask a sin...
Start on line 1, finish on whatever line is last. Essentialism is a dead-end philosophy. Whether we're discussing biology or psychology, there is no u...
So trans women ought not be allowed to use women's bathrooms because perverts exist? That's terrible reasoning. And, again, the studies show that tran...
And a gender. Words can have more than one meaning. I've already addressed this. Trans-inclusive bathroom policies do not put cisgender women at a gre...
That's not how the law works. I'll quote from the ruling: 1. The Scottish Parliament passed the 2018 Act to provide for positive action measures to be...
Everyone mentions that. In fact, “women’s rights” is usually the very thing that is used to argue against “trans rights”. Everyone’s rights matter. Me...
Even if that were true, it’s not always obvious. Do you think it’s acceptable for a trans man with a penis, and who is indistinguishable from the typi...
How is a cisgender woman to know if the person naked next to them is a trans man with an artificial penis and not a cisgender man with a natural penis...
Most of the abuse they receive is “Get out! You’re not allowed to use this bathroom you pervert!” (even though they’re not perverts and are allowed to...
And you would include some trans women (i.e. those who have had bottom surgery) and exclude some trans men (i.e. those who have had bottom surgery) fr...
If there's full frontal public nudity then I don't think it matters whether your genitals are natural or artificial, and so a trans man with a penis s...
I didn’t say that. I said that I don’t know of any UK law that dictates which bathrooms people can use. The recent UK Supreme Court ruling is only tha...
You're not making any sense. I don't think anyone should be excluded from any bathrooms. I think bathrooms should be unisex. But, if we do have bathro...
On the basis that we have separate men’s and women’s bathrooms. If cis and trans men are allowed to use the women’s bathrooms and cis and trans women ...
That was premised on the fact that we do have separate men's and women's bathrooms. So, my position is: 1) bathrooms ought be unisex 2) but, if we hav...
It's not quite clear. The closest thing in the ruling is: Whether or not this includes bathrooms isn't obvious, given that cubicles are private and bi...
I'm not excluding anyone. I've said many times before that I think bathrooms should be unisex. You're the one who is saying that bathroom usage should...
That just seems to be some minister's interpretation of the ruling. As far as I'm aware there's no law on bathroom usage at all. The ruling is just th...
The argument is that some of these spaces shouldn't be exclusively for those who are biologically female or for those who are biologically female; tha...
I addressed that issue earlier, maybe to someone else. The specific court case was regarding the Equality Act 2010, and in particular this section: Th...
Yes, words can mean more than one thing. So when you ask "what man is female?" what do you mean by the words "man" and "female"? Do you mean "what bio...
The phrase “goodwill to all men” from the Bible does not mean “goodwill to all biological males”. It means “goodwill to all people”. Some words mean m...
Not everyone uses the word “man” to only refer to a biological male, and the meaning of a word is determined by how language users use words. See Witt...
The word "man" in the phrase "transgender man" does not mean "biologically male". Yes, and the word "man" can mean "human". If you type "define: man" ...
It doesn't only mean that, hence the phrase "transgender man" being a meaningful phrase in the English language. And sometimes "man" means "human". Wo...
I’m not saying anything about what words should mean. I’m saying that: 1) the English noun “man” doesn’t just mean “biologically male”, and 2) transge...
We’re not discussing what is allowed. We’re discussing what ought be allowed. One country might allow transgender men to use the men’s bathroom and on...
Neither UK law nor sporting organisations dictate what English language words mean. They can dictate who is allowed to do what, but that’s not what’s ...
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