Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ on Nostr: One of the (dumb) arguments against acceptance of transgender people takes ...
One of the (dumb) arguments against acceptance of transgender people takes disagreement about the definition of “man” and “woman” as dangerous to a functioning society. Setting aside that this argument depends first upon confusion about the difference between gender and biological sex and, the idea that we need to agree one this particular ontological fact is very odd when the people making the argument doesn’t say the same about other ontological (and metaphysical) disagreements.
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