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A new definition of female, brought to you by twitter.

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PotholeParadies · 10/03/2021 14:08

A female academic has posed this question

Please explain to me how a fully transitioned trans woman, who has breasts and a vagina, has orgasms and experiences the sex act in the same way my body does, should be forced to put male, not female, on the census, just because that is on her birth certificate.

Jane Clare Jones has already been on the case, but I thought we might also enjoy taking that apart.

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PotholeParadies · 10/03/2021 14:17

midge you're using words to mean things again.

Someone has told her that post-SRS, results are indistinguishable, and that is what she will stick with.

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lazylinguist · 10/03/2021 14:16

Confused Because what sex you are isn't defined by how you have sex. Nor by what bits you have had removed from or attached to your own natural body. If I had antennae implanted on my head and decided to mate however beetles mate, that wouldn't make me a beetle.

TeenMinusTests · 10/03/2021 14:16

Surely that person will have bothered to get a GRC and therefore could still legally put female anyway?

terryleather · 10/03/2021 14:16

A female academic has posed this question

Hmm Hmm Hmm

I hope to gawd that academic doesn't work in any science/biology/medical related fields, cause that's some powerful guff she's farting out...

midgedude · 10/03/2021 14:14

So it's hypothetical as it's not possible today is it?

Can we cross that bridge when we get there ?

Soubriquet · 10/03/2021 14:12

Easy

They have the genetic data of XY and not XX

Childrenofthestones · 10/03/2021 14:12

As an aside and just as a matter of interest, what percentage of people declaring themselves transwomen tick all those boxes?

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PotholeParadies · 10/03/2021 14:11

"The sex act"?

It all seems to imply that femaleness is something endowed upon you if a man finds you sexually attractive. Not a new idea, tbh. Old novels used to coyly imply that one became a woman upon one's wedding night, which always grated on me as a girl reading them in the late 20th century.

Surely we can move beyond this in 2021?

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