I'm halfway through the Q&A session on the debate and so far two main things I've been thinking:
Julie Rei Goldstein seems to believe that JRG is treated authentically as a woman would be treated because JRG is read as a woman. Does JRG really honestly believe this? Is there a human being on the planet who would not be able to correctly identify the sex of JRG? I don't say this as some snarky dig at JRG's appearance but because it seems that some of JRG's argument's really rely on this being the case, and it just obviously is not the case. JRG is being treated as what JRG is: a male who is not conforming to masculinity norms. I don't doubt that's a tough gig, but it's obviously not the same as being treated as a woman.
Why do these 'sex is a social construct', 'sex is so unbelievably complicated', 'sex is a spectrum' people think that sex even exists? Why is it that we don't all have exactly the same genitals? Like come on. Sexual dimorphism goes hand in hand with sexual reproduction, which requires two gametes and only two. Do they think that sex is also incredibly complicated in cattle or mice? Or is just because humans are so super special that we have transcended such things? Incidentally I wish that Meghan had referred to gametes rather than saying that females were the sex that can grow babies inside them, because we all know the standard 'come-back' to that one, disingenuous as it is.