This following is a copy paste of two posts I made on the India Willoughby thread smushed together:
I know trans ideology says that ‘trans is an adjective not a prefix’ but if that were true it would surely have to be a magical adjective?
To illustrate:
Tall woman = an adult female human of greater than average height
Old woman = an adult female human who has lived for a long time.
Black woman = an adult female human with dark-coloured skin, especially one of sub-Saharan African ancestry
Trans woman = an adult MALE human who says he’s a female human (and who might have altered his appearance via hormonal and surgical methods).
One of these ‘adjectives’ is very much not like the others!
So…
IF we were to take the transgenderist position that ‘biological sex’ and ‘gender identity’ are two separate things, and those two different things can be mismatched inside one person (the current definition of being transgender, and the basis of the new ‘Gender Incongruence’ medical diagnosis)
and IF we were to agree with them that ‘male’ &’ female’ refer to sex and ‘woman’ & ‘man’ refer the completely separate concept of gender (because this is the only way in which the ‘tall/old/black women, trans is just another adjective!’ can stand up)
Then why on earth would we ever need use two ‘gender’ words in a row? If cisgender describes gender and transgender describes gender and woman describes gender and man describes gender…
Then that surely means that trans and cis are completely superfluous (because we already have enough words to cover sex & gender as two distinct concepts)? And thus we can happily discard trans/cis from our language…
Because if you accept the trans ideological argument that sex/gender are separate and a mismatch is a naturally occurring possibility and then follow it all the way to the logical conclusion it results in the following (drum roll!)…
Then instead of ‘ciswomen or ‘cisgender women’
we can just use ‘female women’!
instead of ‘transwomen’ or ‘transgender women’
we can just use ‘male women’!
instead of ‘cisman’ or ‘cisgender man’
we can just use ‘male men!
instead of ‘transman’ ‘transgender man’
we can just use ‘female men!
If sex and gender are truly different why can’t we these sex/gender language combos without being accused of transphobia?
And if sex and gender are completely separate then surely single sex spaces and services for female people are as irrelevant to ‘male women’ as they are to ‘male men’?