“nobody (at least out of the properly informed people I’ve come across) is claiming that gender identity determines whether you are male or female.”
This just isn't true. Gender recognition certificates change a record of someone being male to being female, or vice versa. The whole problem of males in women's sports and in women's spaces …
“nobody (at least out of the properly informed people I’ve come across) is claiming that gender identity determines whether you are male or female.”
This just isn't true. Gender recognition certificates change a record of someone being male to being female, or vice versa. The whole problem of males in women's sports and in women's spaces rests on the claim that these people are now, for all practical purposes, the opposite sex to the one they were born.
The Sandie Peggie case in Scotland involves a nurse who was suspended for objecting to a male person in the female changing room. In the witness box this male person - a medical doctor - claimed to be biologically female. None of the NHS witnesses defending the treatment of Peggie will admit that Upton is male.
Gender identity is a bait and switch. We are asked to accept that a male person is female but as that is self-evidently untrue, a middle step is fabricated - we are asked to accept him not as female, but as a woman (what does “woman” mean? Insert circular definition). He then claims the right to spaces and resources reserved for female people. Alan Sokal has gone into more detail about the use of the word woman and how in practical terms it still means adult human female.
“nobody (at least out of the properly informed people I’ve come across) is claiming that gender identity determines whether you are male or female.”
This just isn't true. Gender recognition certificates change a record of someone being male to being female, or vice versa. The whole problem of males in women's sports and in women's spaces rests on the claim that these people are now, for all practical purposes, the opposite sex to the one they were born.
The Sandie Peggie case in Scotland involves a nurse who was suspended for objecting to a male person in the female changing room. In the witness box this male person - a medical doctor - claimed to be biologically female. None of the NHS witnesses defending the treatment of Peggie will admit that Upton is male.
Gender identity is a bait and switch. We are asked to accept that a male person is female but as that is self-evidently untrue, a middle step is fabricated - we are asked to accept him not as female, but as a woman (what does “woman” mean? Insert circular definition). He then claims the right to spaces and resources reserved for female people. Alan Sokal has gone into more detail about the use of the word woman and how in practical terms it still means adult human female.
https://thecritic.co.uk/on-the-deceptive-use-of-words/