Thread by @aliamjadrizvi

THREAD:

A lot of these culture wars are just the same age-old generation-gap “Ah, kids these days...” conflicts. The difference is, everyone has a Twitter platform to vent their recreational outrage.

There are bigger battles to fight than getting triggered over “individuals with a cervix.” Who cares? Trans men have cervices, and millions of women who’ve had hysterectomies don’t. What difference does it really make to your life if...

...your children are destined for a future that makes a distinction between biological sex (natal male, natal female) and gender identity (man, woman, boy, girl)?

Of course biological sex is real. You wouldn’t need terms like cis or trans if it wasn’t. You wouldn’t have...

...hormonal treatments or transition surgery if it wasn’t. It’s crazy to deny this.

But it’s also overblown to obsess over “individuals with a cervix,” which is MORE scientifically accurate re: Pap tests than “women” (millions of whom don’t have cervices) or even “females.”

It’s an anatomical feature you are acknowledging, not a lived experience you are “erasing.”

Also, please stop getting triggered by collective pronouns like “they” for individuals. It’s already common to use "they" as an alternative to “he/she” — and THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE:

Back in the day, “thou” was for the individual and “you” for the collective. When people started using “you” for the collective and phasing “thou” out, guess who got triggered by it?

Yes, the stuffy, curmudgeonly religious folk, with their age-old “You are altering the language of God!” bullshit. Don’t be like them. “Thou” is long gone, and no one really gives a shit.

I’m an old man, so I’ll probably keep saying “women” for cervix-possessing individuals most of the time out of habit. But I’m not going to get my old granny panties all up in a bunch because of scientifically accurate language that is...

...inclusive of trans men and millions of post-hysterectomy natal females.

Choose your battles, Karens and Kens.

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