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asmoryesterday at 4:47 PM4 repliesview on HN

Trans women are not male, including biologically if you assume HRT. This is overcompensating rationality to shit on a group of people that are functionally intersex for "biological" distinction.

And we're not even talking about a context where biology matters. You just wanted to vice signal.

If you want to make this an SBGG criticism, I'd love to see you even get close to proving abuse beyond singular instances. Even all the right-wingers that said they'd change their gender marker to make a point did not. Because people don't do that lightly.


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throwawaypathtoday at 4:08 PM

>Trans women are not male

Trans-women are human males.

jadamsonyesterday at 4:54 PM

Setting aside arguments over biology, avoiding getting sent to war to be blown to pieces wouldn't be a "light" reason to consider claiming gender diversity.

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jasifftoday at 1:37 AM

They are male. It is one of the definitional criteria. In gender identity parlance, it is the attribute that distinguishes "trans women" from "cis women". The latter of whom are female.

renewiltordyesterday at 4:57 PM

What are the consequences of changing the marker? Does it impose legal requirements on people or is it a matter of identity alone? Just curious why people don't take it lightly. Identity is important so that will suffice as an explanation.

EDIT: I'm rate-limited on comments, so if you come back here and read this, thank you for sharing from experience.

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