This "TERF Wars" article was recently published in The Sociological Review. Let's see what they say about biological sex...
Colonialism!
Racialized norms!
Heteronorms!
Ergo... sex is a social construct!
Now there's a non sequitur if I've ever seen one!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…
"'Gender critical’ feminists’ arguments often run against (and ignore) decades of feminist theorising on the ontological and epistemic status of ‘womanhood’ and ‘femaleness.’"
...Yeah, because it's absolute trash and doesn't begin to even approximate biological reality.
In science, when your "theorizing" doesn't conform to reality, you don't double-down and insist reality must be as you imagine; you go back to the drawing board and try again. This is the only reliable way to produce knowledge.
"If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong."
This "decades of feminist theorizing" they're referring to is the result of @BretWeinstein's notion of "idea laundering": A bad idea gets published, then new papers cite these ideas and build upon them, followed by even more citing the last ones, etc, etc.
The end of this process is a giant pile of theoretical nonsense so far removed from reality it's worse than useless. All it can do is play intellectual dress-up by duping people with cryptic jargon and pointing to the ever-growing heap of published nonsense.
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