“biological male” is if anything bad description of reality. A trans woman who has been on hormone therapy for a couple of years is biologically closer to cisgender women than cisgender men. And even more so if they’ve had surgeries. But usually people who use that term don’t care and lump everyone who was assigned male at birth into that category.
I could attribute this term to ignorance because it sounds reasonable, but it’s far too often used to exclude trans women from spaces that other women belong
A lot of ignorance is just a story convincing enough to be memetic, and social truth is about as intelligent as pond scum, because it is that shallow social reaction.
The social truth is also aggressively defended. You’ll have academics explaining how this is an issue based on definitions bounded for utility in the form of heuristics specialized for social communicablility.
Does anyone remember all the annoying kids ranting about social constructs?
Most things are social constructs. Just like doors, windows, and the boundable complexities around when a door is a window, or when they are neither.
Fighting that doors can’t be windows is dumb when I have door windows and window doors.
Imtersex people exist. Trans animals exist, and some species are not clearly boundable /definable by that anthropocentric oversimplification.
If only we had cooperative social values for actually understanding the world.
That’s a beautiful way of seeing it indeed, you convinced me
My point was just to say that in very specific cases it can be used to make it clear that the person is born male but I guess the cisgender and transgender terms are now relatively well known
It’s still easier to explain some things with this word, but I wouldn’t use it socially of course
You nailed the problem: it is often used for bad reasons and thus people categorize people saying this word, which is highly invalid imo and shouldn’t be criminalized this way when the context is appropriate
But yea, now even scientific literature pretty much abandoned this word
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depends, but in general they are
I disagree on this
“biological male” is if anything bad description of reality. A trans woman who has been on hormone therapy for a couple of years is biologically closer to cisgender women than cisgender men. And even more so if they’ve had surgeries. But usually people who use that term don’t care and lump everyone who was assigned male at birth into that category.
I could attribute this term to ignorance because it sounds reasonable, but it’s far too often used to exclude trans women from spaces that other women belong
A lot of ignorance is just a story convincing enough to be memetic, and social truth is about as intelligent as pond scum, because it is that shallow social reaction.
The social truth is also aggressively defended. You’ll have academics explaining how this is an issue based on definitions bounded for utility in the form of heuristics specialized for social communicablility.
Does anyone remember all the annoying kids ranting about social constructs? Most things are social constructs. Just like doors, windows, and the boundable complexities around when a door is a window, or when they are neither.
Fighting that doors can’t be windows is dumb when I have door windows and window doors.
Imtersex people exist. Trans animals exist, and some species are not clearly boundable /definable by that anthropocentric oversimplification.
If only we had cooperative social values for actually understanding the world.
That’s a beautiful way of seeing it indeed, you convinced me
My point was just to say that in very specific cases it can be used to make it clear that the person is born male but I guess the cisgender and transgender terms are now relatively well known
It’s still easier to explain some things with this word, but I wouldn’t use it socially of course
You nailed the problem: it is often used for bad reasons and thus people categorize people saying this word, which is highly invalid imo and shouldn’t be criminalized this way when the context is appropriate
But yea, now even scientific literature pretty much abandoned this word
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