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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Politician declares gender swap

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Emerencealwayshopeful · 14/11/2018 22:49

www.buzzfeed.com/aliceworkman/nationals-senator-barry-osullivan-gender-female-abortion?fbclid=IwAR3WTs11nL4GWf73_noFf7r1moCWymYzQeMnPOUJIOO040njMs4UYjL8nOA

Hopefully the link works.

An aging right wing white male pollie (so the regular type) has declared that he is now a woman and therefore the left wingers need to stop telling him that as a male he has no right to an opinion on abortion.

I’m fascinated by the conversations in my fb feed where people who are generally NOT gender critical (and who most likely believe that Cis and Trans are real things) are saying that unless he ‘smiles more’ or ‘shaves his legs’ or ‘takes a pay cut including retrospectively’ then he’s not really female.

How do they know that other gender switch people are validly trans and therefore in need of support and not him?

And how is he mocking trans people (as a responding politician accused in the article) if he is now trans himself? And back to the previous question - How do we determine who is declaring gender for ‘acceptable’ reasons and who is not? What is the litmus test?

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NibblyPig · 14/11/2018 22:51

Quite! If it really is all in the feels, how can anyone deny his assertions? TWAW no debate literal violence etc

BirdseyeFrozen · 15/11/2018 12:23

Does he have a string of companies in different names?
I believe that this is one of the tests we will be applying in the UK following "Stephgate"

PurpleOva · 15/11/2018 12:37

Surely gender identification is fairly irrelevant for opinion on abortion law.

A transman would be much more qualified to have a relevant view than a transwoman.

If any political question were a question of biology, it's that of abortion and other reproductive rights.

(I know you all know this. But anyway)

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