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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Why is the definition of a woman so confusing these days?

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Fairenuff · 28/01/2018 12:08

I know it's probably been done to death but it used to be so simple.

There were men and women. All kinds of different people but two sexes.

But now no-one can define what a woman is.

We know it's not clothes, hair or make-up
We're being told it's not having a vagina, periods or child bearing
It's nothing to do with the male/female brain

So what is it? Is it purely down to chromosones?

And if it is, how can people without female chromosones still say that they are a woman?

Confused
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ShotsFired · 31/01/2018 08:32

ShotsFired If only there was a simple answer to all this... hmm

@NaturalWoman What, you mean like - if you have a male body you use the men's toilets and if you have female body then you use the women's toilets.

You, my friend, are a GENIUS! Why didn't we think of that bef.... oh. We did.

AngryAttackKittens · 31/01/2018 09:34

If girls being put into shared rooms with boys who think they're girls becomes the norm then the girls might end up being glad to have "oh my parents are conservative, they just won't let me go" as an excuse, given how much social pressure is on them to go along with this stuff.

BiologyMatters · 31/01/2018 18:13

Hopefully rat has helped peak trans a few other people.

Fairenuff · 31/01/2018 18:17

But they are talking about shared rooms at university Angry. Young women should not be expected to share with a person with a penis if they don't want to.

Regarding school trips, it's often common practice to not know in advance who you're sharing with but I do think girls should be given the same consideration and, again, not have to share a room with a person with a penis if they don't want to.

If my child had a transgender child in their group I would firstly find out how they felt about sharing a room and if they were not comfortable with it, I would have to tell the school that they either guarantee they wouldn't have to share or, unfortunately my child would have to miss the trip for the sake of the other child. I would let them know that I would be informing Ofsted and see what happens.

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UpABitLate · 31/01/2018 19:59

Guide leader on here said if it comes up then due to the conflicts of interests etc complications safeguarding and so on they probably just won't take them on overnights any more.

UpABitLate · 31/01/2018 20:00

This is what we tend to do isn't it, if something isn't right, we are often powerless to change it, we just quietly slip away / the thing stops / we quietly mention to others and then that's done, no more whatever it is.

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