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I do not see transwomen to be fundamentally equal in every aspect to cisgender women. The fact that there is a distinction at all indicates that there is something that makes the two things different. Transwomen are women-presenting individuals. I do not make any empirical claims about the effectiveness of transitioning as a treatment for gender dysphoria. But it is intellectually dishonest and logically nonsensical to claim that transwomen are the same as cisgender women when, even in the use of the language, they are two distinct groups.
In linguistic terms, if a woman is solely referring to gender identity, then yes, trans women are women. However, the word 'woman' to me does not strictly entail gender identity; it also encompasses biological, scientifically observable, and measurable phenomena. Such as being born with a vagina, a uterus, naturally producing high levels of estrogen, chromosomes, and more. With those things being in addition to the individual identifying with their assigned sex at birth.
As an extension of this, saying there are no differences between men and women and that gender is nothing but how one self-identifies is a dismissal of observable reality. To say that everyone doesn't fit perfectly or neatly into the categories and social norms associated with being a man or woman doesn't mean that we don't understand there to be clear characteristics and distinctions of either one.
It's like saying, because you cannot neatly identify when a puddle becomes a lake, that there are no such things as puddles and lakes.
Men are men, women are women, transwomen are transwomen, and transmen are transmen.
(Yes, I did write this myself. I'm not one of those thieves on .org who plagiarizes other people's work for updoots without even giving a mention or credits.)
In linguistic terms, if a woman is solely referring to gender identity, then yes, trans women are women. However, the word 'woman' to me does not strictly entail gender identity; it also encompasses biological, scientifically observable, and measurable phenomena. Such as being born with a vagina, a uterus, naturally producing high levels of estrogen, chromosomes, and more. With those things being in addition to the individual identifying with their assigned sex at birth.
As an extension of this, saying there are no differences between men and women and that gender is nothing but how one self-identifies is a dismissal of observable reality. To say that everyone doesn't fit perfectly or neatly into the categories and social norms associated with being a man or woman doesn't mean that we don't understand there to be clear characteristics and distinctions of either one.
It's like saying, because you cannot neatly identify when a puddle becomes a lake, that there are no such things as puddles and lakes.
Men are men, women are women, transwomen are transwomen, and transmen are transmen.
(Yes, I did write this myself. I'm not one of those thieves on .org who plagiarizes other people's work for updoots without even giving a mention or credits.)
