@NiceGerbil I read your reply as friendly. My reply is too.
I’m trying to read up on these issues to actually find my exact thoughts and where I stand. I definitely don’t know enough yet, and my current thoughts aren’t final. I may say something contradictory, because I haven’t managed to confirm exactly what I think, due to lack of knowledge.
I have spent the last hour trying to answer your questions. I can’t even make sense of my own opinions, they sometimes contradict each other. Which is why I’m spending time researching.
These are my thoughts now. I welcome friendly criticism, reasons why I may be wrong. It is important to me that I understand these issues.
I see 2 sexes - male and female. This is determined at birth and most people fall into one. Sex can’t be changed. I do see man/woman/girl/boy as identities. I probably used to see them in the same way as sex - boys and men are male and girls and women are female. But not now. Now I do see them as something that can be changed. A trans woman was a man, and is now a woman. A trans woman is male. I’m not making fun when I say I do not know at what point they are a woman. When they say so? When can they use a female changing room? I do not think a trans woman should be able to participate in female sport. But I do empathise that if they think of themselves as female, they won’t feel part of male sport either. I don’t have a solution.
I think we do need to be inclusive of everyone. Pregnant women aren’t the only ones who could be pregnant. A trans man is a man, who could be pregnant, but they are female. Anyone pregnant
is female.
Contrary to my muddled post, I am a fairly intelligent person. But I can’t seem to organise my own thoughts to come to a clear statement.
I agree with what you have said in your subsequent posts.
I don’t understand the last paragraph on your post that was directed to me.