And by this you just mean that no biological man is a biological woman, which everyone accepts. But as I mentioned before, the terms “man” and “woman”...
For sport we separate people according to biological sex, regardless of gender identity, but for some other things we separate people according to gen...
And on that we agree, as I’ve mentioned before. But you also mentioned other “women exclusive spaces”, which I assume you mean to be spaces exclusive ...
Even as a heterosexual man I’m sure I wouldn’t be sexually interested in the majority of cisgender women. So I still don’t really get the point being ...
Okay, but sex differences in psychology are still a real thing, and in a minority of cases someone can have the psychology typically associated with t...
The point I am making is that you clearly understand that in many cases someone’s sex determines the way that they are treated, but that this treatmen...
It’s a biological woman who is psychologically male, and wishes to be treated how society and culture usually treats those who are psychologically mal...
Biological men and biological women tend to have a different kind of psychology. The way they think and feel and behave is different. These difference...
Trans men aren’t identifying as someone with XY chromosomes or as someone who was born with a penis. When they say “I am a man” they are not saying an...
Trans women are not biological women. We all agree on that. The disagreement stems over whether or not "women" always means "biological women". The cl...
I don’t think bathrooms should be divided by gender. I think bathrooms should be unisex. But those who are argue that bathrooms should be divided by g...
The inner ear is caused to generate nerve impulses by soundwaves stimulating the cochlea. That's what it means to hear things in the environment. It's...
Light, sound, smells, etc. The very fact that we sense and respond to the external world is only possible because the external world causally influenc...
The human body might be more complex than a plant and a computer but its internal behaviour is still causally influenced by external stimulation. The ...
They're not false analogies. If eliminative materialism is correct then human organisms are not special. They behave according to the same biological ...
This is like saying that because the electricity in my computer's hard drive is not foreign to the computer then I am not causally responsible for let...
All physical events are a response to prior physical events. Matter doesn't move apropos of nothing. The human body and brain are material, and behave...
Not quite. The ruling is that, “the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.” It’s specifically in...
Yes. Determinism is the inevitable consequence of eliminative materialism. I haven't done anything like that. I have simply pointed out that – if elim...
If someone’s opinion on who should use which bathroom stems from a flawed understanding of biology then being educated on the existence of intersex pe...
We can say anything we like, but what's the justification behind this decision? If it's acceptable for someone who is intersex to identify a woman and...
If physics and eliminative materialism are correct then sound waves causally affect sense receptors which in turn causally affect brain activity which...
@"NOS4A2" You may have missed this: This seems to me like saying that if I kick a football through a window then I didn’t cause the window to break, a...
No, because many disagree with (2). They will claim that bathrooms ought be separated by gender, not sex. I explained it quite clearly. To say that tr...
It's not off topic. It is perfectly consistent to accept both of these: 1. Gender and sex are distinct 2. Bathrooms ought be separated by sex, not gen...
I'm addressing the relevant issue. You say that an intersex person can use whichever bathroom they are most comfortable using. So why not allow a non-...
Why? Why not: the men's bathroom is exclusively for any biological man who identifies as a man, biological woman who identifies as a man, or intersex ...
I thought you disagreed with this view? I'm pointing out the inconsistency in your view. If intersex people are allowed to use women's bathrooms then ...
So why is it acceptable for intersex people to use whichever bathroom they want but not trans people? In allowing intersex people in men's bathrooms a...
Yes, because people like you are claiming that only biological men should use the men's bathrooms and only biological women should use the women's bat...
Because it's somewhat relevant. If someone claims that men's bathrooms are only for people who are biologically male and women's bathrooms are only fo...
Because some, like Malcolm Parry and AmadeusD, claimed that every single human without exception is either (unambiguously) biologically male or (unamb...
Yes, if by "human" you mean "homo sapiens". Homo sapiens evolved from homo antecessor, but there was never some single generation where someone who wa...
Just one counterexample is sufficient to disprove your claim that every single human without exception is either (unambiguously) biologically male or ...
No, I am trying to explain to them that it is not the case that every single human without exception is either (unambiguously) biologically male or (u...
Malcolm Parry and AmadeusD are claiming that every single human without exception is either (unambiguously) biologically male or (unambiguously) biolo...
I'm responding to @"frank"'s claim that someone is biologically male if and only if they (only) have an XY karyotype and biologically female if and on...
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