@Saeko_Cut 1st pic is ironically relevant. Plato and Aristotle debating if 'reality' is comprised of unobservable essences that make a thing that thing regardless of its physical properties, or simply the physical world that we can know through observation. Trans: Plato. TERF: Socrates.
@Saeko_Cut This trans issue really got serious in the 16th C, with wars across Europe underpinned by disagreement over whether the bread/wine in communion 'really' turn into Jesus' flesh/blood (despite appearances) or are just bread/wine (erroneously attributing the former idea to Socrates)
@Saeko_Cut So, Terfism has philosophical roots in Socrates' philosophy and Protestant reform, gender ideology in Platonic philosophy and Catholic doctrine. Not sure if it is my feminism or my history of philosophy doctorate that drives my fascination with the GI debate more 😄
@Saeko_Cut *'trans issue' = transubstantiation.
@Saeko_Cut To close, those who say sex realists are 'gender essentialists' have it the wrong way around. It is gender identitarians who believe in 'essence' of man/woman, existing separately to physical bodies, such that a female 'essence' can inhabit a male body. 2,400 year old argument.
@Saeko_Cut (But before the gender borg get too excited, the idea that you can whack a female essence in a male body is entirely new. That kind of shenanigans is just for Jesus and the bread and wine lol)
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