I wonder whether there isn't an issue of cultural competence in how we try and evaluate these arguments. The purpose of these statements is not to give a universally convincing rationale for policy. It's to offer justification that will be accepted by specific decisionmakers, w specific beliefs 🧵
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Ethel Weapon
The definition of sex put forwarded on this page, however, thinks that biological structures inherently have purposes.
Thus it stipulates that even if a body does not function to produce gametes, it *ought* to.
This is, at core, scientifically illiterate...
Thus it stipulates that even if a body does not function to produce gametes, it *ought* to.
This is, at core, scientifically illiterate...
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