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We‘ve taken this conversation pretty far over the past 12-days (thanks for sticking with it!). I think it‘s fair to circle back to your original question that I
by realityking 5y ago
We‘ve taken this conversation pretty far over the past 12-days (thanks for sticking with it!). I think it‘s fair to circle back to your original question that I responded to:
> Why is the subjective experience of gender privileged over the objective biology of sex?
My point was that biology is not all that objective and if we were to use pronouns in accordance with your thesis, we‘d eliminate the identity of many intersex people.
Whether gender-identity can be out of sync with your body in the absence of conditions described as intersex (which, for the record, I do believe in) and whether it should be respected is somewhat orthogonal to that. I believe the examples I’ve given of conditions where biology is either ambiguous or actively out of sync are sufficient to illustrate that using “ objective biology” would eliminate the identity of many intersex people. It’s my opinion, that that alone is reason enough to privilege gender over sex.
- memling 5y agoThanks for the consistent and thoughtful replies. It's been helpful for me as I think about these hot-button topics. I'll certainly leave here but will probably reference the thread for my own sake for some time to come; thanks again.