Difficult Debates 🇮🇪 🦖 Profile picture
I aim to provide a genuine contribution to literary, artistic, political, scientific, religious and/or academic discourse on issues discussed. Follow ≠ endorse
Jan 16, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
The entirety of trans ideology comes down to what the words boy/girl/man/woman actually mean.

I know society doesn't have a great track record for accepting people who differ from social norms, but I think consensus can be reached that if boys want to play with dolls and wear dresses, then they shouldn't be demonised for doing so. Similarly, girls should not be forced to do those things. They shouldn't be encouraged to be "non-conforming" but they shouldn't be ostracized if they don't conform.

None of that, however, changes what the words boy/girl
Dec 16, 2022 5 tweets 7 min read
@ursa_solar @Cupcakedancer1 @TheBossEyedOne @43752083470g @GCPaulM To be fair. That's a pretty witty comment 😁

But, you seem to have confused yourself again trying to follow the lines of reasoning.

The spork analogy speaks to your claim that ambiguous cases "break my theory".

My argument is that there are unambiguous cases of male/female @ursa_solar @Cupcakedancer1 @TheBossEyedOne @43752083470g @GCPaulM and therefore man/woman. The unambiguous cases don't break this theory in the same way, analogously, the existence of sporks doesn't "break the theory" that there are implements unambiguously referred to as forms and others unambiguously referred to as spoons.
Nov 1, 2022 17 tweets 8 min read
So, people are assigned a sex at birth. Why are some people assigned male while others are assigned female? On what basis would a medical professional assume the sex of the child?

#women #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #whatisawoman #WomanFace #transman #transwoman Image The reason is that certain biological characteristics are given the name male, while certain other biological characteristics are given the name female. A person who objectively has the given characteristics is called either male or female.

Males and females go through a