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[–]transwomanHesitantly QT? 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But now you're conflating sex with gender. Did I ever say that someone with a penis isn't male, trans or not?

While it seems counter-intuitive to redefine gender from "sex roles" to be based on self identification (as this makes gender seem arbitrary and unclear), it is the exact direction we should go in to abolish gender. If we want to get rid of something, we need to make sure nobody can find any pragmatic value in that thing. If gender is based solely on self identification, and we have pickles and ice cream genders, then evidently society will come to a point where there is no need for gender to exist.

In this redefining of gender, biological sex remains what it is today. I never proposed any changes to this. If you'd like to argue about how we classify biological sex and how we should do so, I think that would require a completely different thread, as we are strictly talking about redefining gender and gender abolition.