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[–]BrNated[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If a trans person was sufficiently passing enough, then they'd technically be of the sex class of the opposite biological sex I guess (just not actually that biological sex). Which means you have the strange situation where you could call them a passing trans woman a woman based on sex class instead of sex which I think at least some GC people would have an issue with...

I'm personally lean a bit more on basing terms like man, woman, etc on biology rather than something like sex class though I wouldn't be completely against the latter. But as you said, a decent portion of GC people would have an issue because regardless of the label, trans women for example still don't have to fear pregnancy, needing an abortion, etc and thus don't have the complete "lived experience" which I find understandable.

[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm personally lean a bit more on basing terms like man, woman, etc on biology rather than something like sex class

Me too! I feel like there isn’t any reason actually passing trans people would need the words to change because it doesn’t affect us. Women and passing transsexual women have the same interests. It hurts that trans rights activism is pushing to change words like woman in ways the harm everyone’s ability to advocate for those interests.