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To be clear, nobody is “formerly-male”. Gender reassignment through hormones and surgery doesn’t actually change sex. The answer here depends on what you think
by jl6 3y ago
To be clear, nobody is “formerly-male”. Gender reassignment through hormones and surgery doesn’t actually change sex.
The answer here depends on what you think the purpose of segregated prisons is. If you think it’s to reduce the risk of females being attacked by males (because the overwhelming majority of sexual assault is done by males to females), then males (regardless of gender) must go to male prisons.
- woooooo 3y agoYour second paragraph is a total dodge. I'm tempted to characterize it as lacking male-gendered terms.
- jl6 3y agoAre you clear on the difference between sex and gender? Some people think prisons are supposed to be segregated by sex, with gender being less relevant to the purpose of protecting females.
- woooooo 3y agoBut if you had to make the choice, in exactly one case? Convicted rapist, currently identifying as female.
- jl6 3y agoDoesn’t really matter what they identify as. If they’re male they should go in the male prison. Identifying as something doesn’t change the physical attributes that make males a potential threat to females.
- woooooo 3y agoI agree, it's obvious common sense. What's interesting is that it was so hard to get there. Despite the answer being obvious. The article author suffers from the same problem, she keeps tacking on unnecessary attacks on what gender "is" that derail some legitimate concerns.
- jl6 3y agoWhat a lot of people don’t understand about this flavor of feminism is that it isn’t about gender, or directly about trans people. It’s about the primacy of sex in defining and defending women as a class. Social roles, gender, clothes, appearance, identification, personality… none of these things are what makes a woman a woman.
- woooooo 3y agoYeah, I guess I was getting around to arguing about primacy of sex vs gender being stupid. Let people live their lives and then make the obvious decision when that clashes with the rights of others. The contrarian in me just loves riling people up on the topic :)