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sorry - what has? opting out of your biological-sex based checks? but that's what you want? you've said (I think) that you don't want a smear test letter?
No. I wanted a system to already be in place that enabled me and others like me to get a smear test letter. Instead my cervix was a surprise present for the surgeon who removed it because the automated system solely goes by an F.
surely anyone with a birth / biological sex female needs a smear? and your birth / biological sex needs to be held at your GP
Anyone with a cervix should have access to a smear. That access is incredibly frequently denied to people with cervixes who's digital work doesn't state they're female, and not all medical instances accept them being carried out regardless.
I was going to say what Hermione has, OP. I realise you have spent a great deal of time thinking about biology in your life, but more women than you can imagine don’t, or don’t know medical words for their anatomy. There are women who simply don’t know that they have a cervix, sad though that is to consider, or who don’t know the English word for it. So they might respond to a poster in a GP’s waiting room addressed to ‘women’ but not register one addressed to ‘people with a cervix’.
Women are still addressed as women. People with cervixes who aren't women are allowed onto a list for care for said cervix. Women without a cervix are allowed to exit off the automatic list by indication that they should be removed.
This is the last time I'm repeating the same thing.
How do humans and other mammals procreate if sex is a construct?
Procreation requires, in mammals, a functioning womb, ovaries and semen (largely). It does not require a distinction of one being male or one being female.
Are you a feminist?
A feminist or a feminist ally, yes. Obviously not one that's trans exclusive and not one for enabling bigotry.
'There are no toys or behaviour for boys or girls, no, that's correct. If she consistently (over years) initiates being a boy or desire to transition it might be more an idea to pay attention for possibly being trans.'
did you mean imitates? as quite a few of us here went through a tomboy phase, I still do 'boy things' doesn't mean I want to be a boy though. Most of the time I'm just me, without a label, boy/girl
No, I meant 'initiates'. As in the child insists they are a boy consistently.
so if she says she wants to transition then that might be a clue?
It might be.
'I do not believe all women should be banned from tending to children because I know abusive mothers.'
@Sideris Respectfully, what an idiotic thing to say. Male on female violence is a HUGE issue. Male on Children sexual violence is a HUGE issue. % of Women who commit these crimes are MINUSCULE and not comparable. You’ve just outed yourself
By all means, swap mothers with fathers. I don't believe all men should be banned from caring for children because I know abusive fathers. I do not believe it just to deny a father to raise his child on the basis he's a man, I do not believe gay men should be denied adoption because abusive fathers exist.
As a person born as a female with female reproductive organs... if you were diagnosed with a female cancer how would you react?
The same way any other with cancer would react. Probably wouldn't go ahead and call it vaginal cancer in public conversation, though.
What are you basing your personal identity on then, how are you seeing yourself differently ‘as a man’ than you did ‘as a woman’, if it is not tied up in gender stereotypes about what men and women should be?
I never saw myself 'as a woman', so I can't see a difference. You're asking me to compare something that I have zero reference for.
So in that case, could you explain what distinction you are making between biological women and biological men which enabled you to know that you were one and not the other?
You're very clearly asking me the wrong question. I'm very tired of repeating myself in that I do not care, at all, I do not have a distinction, I do not believe I am one and not the other, it is a conversation you cannot have with me.
So they're just labels we ascribe to ourselves and others?; lovely idea, but I'm afraid you are incorrect.
They are the sex classifications for all mammals and most other living beings. I accept its trickier with snails and trees.
Are 'snail' and 'tree' personal identities we can identify into and out of?
'Snails' and 'trees' are names we gave to an animal and a plant (also names we gave to those). They're not considered identities any more than a kidney. They describe something. 'Female' and 'male' are not stuck in one description, people fit outside the box constantly, they're simplifications that group together bunches of aspects. Animals, as far as we know, do not have 'male' or 'female', they have organs that respond in certain manners of which one organ grows a child/children, a whole bunch of things. Not the "'female' and 'male' and they go perfectly together for childbirth all the time" situation we insist is there.
I assume the person asking you about JK Rowling was referring to her recent tweet in support of Maya Forstater, in which Ms Rowling said a person should not be sacked for saying (as you also say) that biological sex exists. Has she also tweeted in support of someone who wants to legalise sexual harassment? Who?
Or, if you are also referring to Ms Forstater, please link to where she has indicated that she believes sexual harassment should be legalised.
Forstaters' lawsuit documents and manifesto clearly indicate she spent approximately 130 tweets a week harassing trans women with increasing vitrol and talking about the genitals and assumed fantasies of her co-employee, by name, on a very public social network. She believed she should be protected for that.