I didn't say it was unfortunate for anybody to be female. I said it was unfortunate for you (ie your argument on the issue of sex) that the science of biology is the arbiter of who is male or female not how a person feels about themselves.
These imaginary 'gotchas' that rely on wilful misunderstandings are utterly pointless. You really have nothing new to bring to the discussion.
It was no 'gotcha' question. Did you imagine you were easily understood?
My argument on the issue of sex? You don't seem to be able to remember what I've said, since you said this earlier today.
I am saying that you repeatedly insist that there are more than 2 sexes and that people can identify into the opposite sex class.
As I have 'repeatedly insisted' it, you'd find it easy to find where I've said it even once. What I have challenged is this GC claim that sex is 'binary and immutable', since it isn't. Nature intends our species to be capable of reproduction, therefore reproductive sex is binary. That people exist without the capacity for reproduction due to difference in their biology illustrates the fact that reproductive sex is not binary, but it doesn't stop them from being human, or from having feelings such as maternal or paternal instinct.
A good many people live and have lived without even knowing that their own chromosomes do not fit the usual pattern. Sex may be binary for people who are fertile, but that isn't everybody. I don't know what my own chromosomal make up is. I don't know if I was ever fertile - I know I'm not now though.
The science of sex is not yet settled, that much biologists tend to agree, so the absolutist stance is not a valid one. Some scientists have said that sex is a spectrum. My knowledge will not compare to theirs, but I think the term 'spectrum' may be unhelpful as a model.
Neither have I said anywhere that I think it possible to change biological sex in its entirety, but then an appreciation of hormone therapy means that I am able to understand that it is possible to change some aspects of a person's sex, and that one aspect of change alone is sufficient to bring them much comfort.
I am also able to understand that it is not only some trans people who seek surgical alteration to their bodies, and when they do they are not subject to the same kinds of ridicule or abuse as trans people so often are. It's not often you'll hear trans people talk about 'sex changes', that'll be cis people being disparaging about trans people. Genital reconstruction is not 'sex change'.
Some women seek breast enlargement, reduction, or reconstruction. The conversation around this carries a range of opinions, ranging from 'my body, my right' opinion, to some pretty grim assessment made by others concerning the range of reasons women opt for surgery. I think it important to distinguish between procedures which are purely cosmetic to feel good about our bodies, and ones which are important to feel right in our bodies, rather than generalise without some nuance.
If it is right for women to seek one or more of a range of surgeries, to please themselves, why not men, why not trans women, and why not trans men?
Otherwise what I have tried repeatedly to tell you is that, it is not my position that a person can change their biological sex, but that parliament introduced law to say that; 1) people can legally change the recorded sex, and 2) that the law requires each of us to respect that and not negatively discriminate against those that do.
Our chief area of disagreement is that I am steeped in that old British maxim which says that 'a little kindness goes a long way', whereas you openly say that you are not prepared to be kind, at least not to those you have a prejudice against.
Instead you tend to prefer some fake mantra such as 'Woman: adult human female'. Which of course, is a statement with a deception contained within, since it conveys the message that there is no such thing as gender identity.
I know this is wrong since I have always had a gender identity, and probably always will have. On the other hand, I've never had maternal instinct, but it doesn't prevent me from understanding that other women have it.
