>āBut who cares about sex chromosomes; I only care about presentation and preferred pronounsā (on the āAre trans women women?ā question)
So, like, depending on context, this might be that, say, you brought up some question for which chromosome-women is the obviously relevant concept, and then someone else tried to stop you from using āwomenā to mean chromosome-women. Which would be a fault of theirs. Or it might be that someone was trying to, say, work out how to treat people in ways that are good for them, and then you tried to stop them from using āwomenā to mean, the cluster of social practices around treating women as opposed to men. Which would perhaps be a fault of yours, or at least, Iād want to know why you were doing that, e.g., because you thought the linguistic territory shouldnāt be somehow ceded.
>āBut who cares about sex chromosomes; I only care about presentation and preferred pronounsā (on the āAre trans women women?ā question)
So, like, depending on context, this might be that, say, you brought up some question for which chromosome-women is the obviously relevant concept, and then someone else tried to stop you from using āwomenā to mean chromosome-women. Which would be a fault of theirs. Or it might be that someone was trying to, say, work out how to treat people in ways that are good for them, and then you tried to stop them from using āwomenā to mean, the cluster of social practices around treating women as opposed to men. Which would perhaps be a fault of yours, or at least, Iād want to know why you were doing that, e.g., because you thought the linguistic territory shouldnāt be somehow ceded.
Thanks for your patience. Iāll take this in the containment thread.