No. It’s the very simple, accurate definition of a lesbian. Female homosexual. That’s it.
Yup, until you start to define "female" and "homosexual". Obviously the devil is in the details, but wasn't it Kathleen Stock who said something along the lines of "not every characteristic of a class is necessary to qualify something as a member of that class but a certain number of characteristics can be taken to be sufficient" ?
POMO waffly word salad
Is that MN for "complexities I refuse to countenance" ?
What aspects of sex are NOT created by our genes? Can you clarify this? Aspects of the physical sex, not gender or feelings or personality. Sex.
What bits of sex are NOT the result of our biology?
OK, firstly, how are you defining "genes"? Are you including the genes responsible for hormone regulation, the environmental factors that trigger them, epigenetics etc etc? Because "biology" certainly =/= only sex chromosomes, you know that, right? Secondly,
Male, female and a few, pretty rare, people who are male or female but have disorders of sexual development.
Woman = adult human female of the class that produces ova.
Is someone with both types of gonad male or female? If you have to refer back to Y chromosomes in such cases, what about in people who also have chromosomal mosaicism, which is not vanishingly rare?
Thirdly, given that behaviour is one expression of phenotype, can you explain why the "few, pretty rare" people who have atypical or ambiguous physical sexual phenotypes are an acceptable constituent of reality to you but the few pretty rare people who have atypical or ambiguous behavioural sexual phenotypes, i.e. transgender people, are not?
Fourthly, if you're going to reply that what I am calling sexually phenotypic behaviour is all in fact gendered behaviour, and you are adamant that gender is entirely a social construct and therefore neither fixed nor innate, why are two criminological surveys of limited power (i.e. FPFW's one and the Swedish study) sufficient to satisfy you that transgender women do retain male-pattern criminal behaviour whereas transgender men, despite the efforts of the patriarchy, represent no increased risk "because they're women" ? Because the thing is, one of these studies ( journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885#pone ) unambiguously states, "By contrast, female-to-males had higher crime rates than female controls but did not differ from male controls. This indicates a shift to a male pattern regarding criminality and that sex reassignment is coupled to increased crime rate in female-to-males. The same was true regarding violent crime."
Your usual response to me is that I'm concerned with speculative waffle and you're concerned with the real danger to vulnerable women and girls. Well, we seem to agree that possession of a penis is not a guarantee of harmful behaviour but merely a signifier of statistical likelihood. Here's a finding of the same risk as that of male controls in transgender men sans possession of your relevant biology, it's from the one formal scientific study you cite to support your arguments on the subject, but this risk is based on what you perceive as gender rather than what you perceive as sex so it doesn't fit in with your particular strain of exclusionary fundamentalism and you never seem to mention it. It can't be for practical reasons that you're not keen to enforce this particular exclusion because a trans man in the Ladies' is frequently far easier to spot than a trans woman.
All this is to say I think the ethical and practical questions you're concerned with should be informed by more than just sex observed at birth. You can accuse me of derailing but given your propensity to simultaneously accuse people of not explaining their point of view adequately I thought I'd unpack it a bit for you. And you can tell yourselves I've just been "reading too much transactivism", but you might want to consider the implications of the fact that I've read probably ten times more of your offerings, thought about it all as honestly as I can and this is what I've come up with.