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1. Why does a certificate that ‘recognises’ someone’s *gender* give them the means to change the *sex* on their birth certificate?
2. Why does the campaign to end transphobia revolve almost exclusively around a drive to remove all legal and social distinction between trans women and females? Might it be more effective to focus on ending discrimination and not obsess over merging 2 materially distinct groups?
3. Why is everyone debating what makes a woman? Why is the question never ‘what makes a man’? Is there a significant power imbalance being demonstrated here?
4. If someone’s gender has nothing to do with the type of body they have, why do trans people often need to take hormones or have surgery to have a body more like that of the opposite sex?
5. Why should gender identity supersede biological sex when classing someone as male or female? Why is it morally repugnant to argue that biological sex should supersede gender identity?
6. If you believe anyone has the right to self declare their gender, does this mean everyone also has a right to self declare their age or race? If not, what’s the difference?
7. Why do you think single sex spaces have historically existed? Do you think trans women feeling safe in female spaces is more important than the risk females will face if any predatory male decides to exploit self ID and use it as a way to get to women in vulnerable situations?
7b. If you are choosing to prioritise trans women feeling safe over females safety, how did you make this choice?
8. How can ‘woman’ be both something that someone can know themselves to be, and simultaneously be impossible to define?
Its good to see this thread getting some attention but these questions weren’t really meant to be rhetorical. Rather naively, I was hoping for any trans rights activists to answer them.
@OwenJones84 @PeterTatchell @stonewalluk @LaylaMoran @ruth_hunt @MhairiBlack @Mermaids_Gender?
@OwenJones84 @PeterTatchell @stonewalluk @LaylaMoran @ruth_hunt @MhairiBlack @Mermaids_Gender?
