2017/07/17/Transgender People and Biological Sex Myths
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- when: 2017/07/17
- author: Julia Serano
- source: medium.com
- topics: biological sex transgenderness gender essentialism
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- link: https://medium.com/@juliaserano/transgender-people-and-biological-sex-myths-c2a9bcdb4f4a
- title: Transgender People and “Biological Sex” Myths
- summary: “...sometimes, efforts to undermine or exclude trans women rely on a somewhat different tactic which takes the following form: A case will be made that sex is distinct from gender – the former being purely biological in nature, the latter being entirely social. Upon making this claim, it will then be argued that, while trans women may indeed be women (because “woman” is a gender category), we nevertheless remain “biologically male” (a sex category).”