• yesman@lemmy.worldOP
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    11 months ago

    The article asks what is the politically neutral answer to the question of whether a trans woman is a woman. I wonder why this is a political question at all.

    Even if the statement “trans women are women” was uncontroversial and mainstream, it’d still be political. “Cis women are women” is political.

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      11 months ago

      How is “cis women are women” political when literally no one is arguing against that point?

      • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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        11 months ago

        It might be nigh-universally accepted, but that lack of controversy doesn’t change a thing. It’s still a statement about identity and the relationship between groups of people, and therefore a political statement.