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>accepting transgender folks' identities that is the issue of social policy (i'm for accepting of whatever identities people have, whether it has scientific ba
by trhway 6y ago
>accepting transgender folks' identities
that is the issue of social policy (i'm for accepting of whatever identities people have, whether it has scientific basis or not) while the article is supposedly about scientific findings
>obtuse about definitions to some degree
that is my point. It is an science related article and thus it is the context where significant degree of precision and obtuseness with definitions is kind of expected. Slipping in such a blanket imprecise statement is what i tried to point to.
- caconym_ 6y agoI don't really think it's inappropriately imprecise, though. It's just an acknowledgement that the link between biological sex and gender self-identification is not well understood at this time.
- sudosysgen 6y agoGender is an issue of social policy, psychology, neuropsychology, and biology. Sex is an issue of science. That's why science on gender always has small degrees of precision and is obtuse. It's moreso a question of soft science than hard science.