1/ Blocked so can't reply directly but it was a specific choice on the part of the activist groups to pathologize the idea that people have an original biological sex, to treat this as some sort of forbidden knowledge that can't be uttered aloud. This was always an insane...
2/ ...decision because people understand what sex is and what the answers to questions like Hawley's are. Activists -- not, by any means, all or even most trans people -- have ignored, like, a decade's worth of feedback on their chosen framing. It failed completely. This is...
3/ ...partly a class thing. The people who believe the weirdest versions of Butlerian gender theory and its offshoots tend to be highly educated and enmeshed in progressive circles. The activist/consultant class. If you talk to just normal trans people, they themselves have...
4/ ...a much wider and in general more normie-friendly set of views about sex and gender than you would think watching these political-theater equivalents of snuff films. I don't understand why progressives won't just *stop* being weirdos on this. What is being gained?
5/ As Pritchard is indicating, there are a million ways to answer this question without sounding like you have terminal Bluesky poisoning and while continuing to defend trans people's dignity. You can literally just say "If by 'men' you mean 'biological males,' no."
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