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An interactive tragedy.

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  • I use the term woman and you knew exactly what I meant

    I didn’t actually, I wrote that to probe out what you actually meant because I was giving you the benefit of the doubt.

    A blonde woman is a description of a woman’s hair colour and you know this.

    And trans/cis is a descriptions of whether a woman was assigned female at birth or not. Woman is not synonymous with cis woman.

    They have different names, which you yourself, use for a reason.

    You give them different names, I’m using adjectives because the distinction matters in this context.

    ‘adult human female’ is not a dog whistle. It’s a legal and common-sense definition

    It really isn’t. When you meet someone irl, you brain doesn’t decide if it thinks they are a man or woman based on their chromosomes or some bioessentialist bs, it does it based of social ques because man/woman are social categories.

    I am not denying the legitimacy of transwomen [sic]; nor is Keir.

    But also:

    This is exactly the same as saying transwomen [sic] are not women, because they are not. They are transwomen [sic].


  • Should a transwoman have the same rights and respect as a woman? Absolutely. Are they the same? No, they are not.

    ‘As a woman’, a trans woman is a woman, different from a cis woman sure, but still a woman. This statement is fairly absurd if you substitute trans with another adjective, like is a blonde woman different from a woman?

    Kier’s words are still not transphobia. There is no fear, dislike, prejudice, discrimination, harassment, or violence in his statement.

    The prejudice is denying the legitimacy of trans women as women. ‘Adult human female’ is a dog whistle for ‘not trans’, so by asserting that a woman is ‘an adult female’ he’s saying trans women aren’t women (and that trans men aren’t men).