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[–]Taln_Reich 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

But most of the world is not going to accept "the transgender paradigm" as a substitute for reality. Sex is biological, and no matter how hard you try to replace the reality of sex with newfangled social constructs, sex isn't going away. You can't erase it, override it, paper it over or make people unsee it.

who is trying to replace biological sex with social constructs? What is attempted, is to stop going by biological sex and instead go by gender identity where biological sex shouldn't matter (e.g. outside the bedroom or medical care). And of course it is possible for a transgender person to be seen as a member of their gender identity instead of their birth sex.

And speaking of your post, is "transgender punctuation and SPAG" a new thing too?

I have no idea what you are talking about.

[–]Omina_SentenziosaSarcastic Ovalord 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

who is trying to replace biological sex with social constructs?

Anyone who is trying to replace sex with gender.

What is attempted, is to stop going by biological sex and instead go by gender identity where biological sex shouldn't matter

First of all, sex is important in lots of things outside medicine and bedroom, including sports, stats, sex segregated spaces. Secondly, gender identity is something we don' t even know if it exists, it would be entirely unprovable even if it existed, it would be completely dependent on people' s words or, at most, adherence to stereotypes, and, more importantly, lots of people don' t even have it.

[–]Taln_Reich 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Anyone who is trying to replace sex with gender.

gender identity is not a social construct. And no one is "replacing sex with gender", what is happening is that sex and gender identity are seperated depending on which one is the relevant one.

including sports, stats, sex segregated spaces.

the sport one correlates with hormone levels (as these are what determines muscle buildup) which in cases of divergence between biological sex and gender identity HRT of sufficent length and dose does restore fairness.

In what regard is biological sex for non-mdeical statistics relevant?

"sex segregated spaces" - in what way is it relevant on whether the person in the cubicle next to you has testes or ovaries?

Secondly, gender identity is something we don' t even know if it exists

it does, as evidenced by the millions of transgender people experiencing distress based on the mismatch between their gender identity and physical sex.

if it exists, it would be entirely unprovable even if it existed, it would be completely dependent on people' s words

the diagnosis of clinical depression is just as dependent on the patients words as the diagnosis for gender dysphoria. Does that mean that clinical depression is entirely unprovable and does not exist?

Also, here's some studies showing a connection between brain development and transgender identities https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4699258/ , https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17352-8 , https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180524112351.htm

adherence to stereotypes

gender identity has nothing to do with stereotypes.

more importantly, lots of people don' t even have it.

really? How many people have experienced involuntarily aquierring the secondary sex characteristics of the opposite sex and did not felt distressed by that?

Also, in this reddit post is a fun little thought excercise in this regard https://www.reddit.com/r/truscum/comments/ll6tpa/we_need_to_start_asking_transphobes_what_they/

[–]MarkTwainiac 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

the sport one correlates with hormone levels (as these are what determines muscle buildup) which in cases of divergence between biological sex and gender identity HRT of sufficent length and dose does restore fairness.

This is totally untrue. Males have a physical advantage over females in sports that ranges from 10-12% at the lowest in sports like running to 60% in sports that rely heavily on activities of the upper body such as throwing, batting, weight lifting to 160% in sports that are largely about punching (boxing).

Males who suppress testosterone and take cross-sex hormones for a year have been shown to lose 0-4% of their muscle mass.

Also, muscle mass is not the only factor. Males have considerably larger hearts and lungs that cause them to have much higher blood oxygen, denser bones, entirely different skeletal shapes, faster twitch fibers and so on.

https://twitter.com/Scienceofsport/status/1283720954657595393/photo/1

https://twitter.com/Scienceofsport/status/1283720954657595393

https://resources.world.rugby/worldrugby/document/2020/10/09/a67e3cc3-7dea-4f1e-b523-2cba1073729d/Transgender-Research_Summary-of-data_ENGLISH-09.10.2020.pdf

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-020-01389-3

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/dec/07/study-suggests-ioc-adjustment-period-for-trans-women-may-be-too-short