| > transactivists Trans activists. "Trans" is an adjective. Calling someone a "trans activist" would be like them calling you a "stupidbigot." > Video So, the first words of the video are: "Sex typically refers to your biological traits such as your gonads, your genitalia, your internal sex characterstics, your hormone production, hormone response, and secondary sex characteristics" To me claiming that humans are not sexually dimorphic would mean claiming that men and women don't generally differ in these characteristics. That's also what it would mean to "deny the existence of biological sex." That's obviously not what this video is doing, since they acknowledge all of these things from the beginning. This video is just about how intersex and trans people exist, and sometimes exhibit a mixed set of characteristics that we usually think of us mutually exclusive. This is obviously true and goes without saying for anyone older than the intended audience for the video, teenagers. > This video contains at least one lawyer from the ACLU, Chase Strangio, claiming that there is no such thing as a "male body" or "female body". So, I assume you're talking about the beginning: "What are we talking about when we say sex and gender, is there something called biological sex and what does that mean." Notice that this is a question. He's introducing a discussion about this topic. "This idea that the body is either male or female is totally wrong" They're saying that the body is not exclusively male or female. They're not saying that humans don't differ sexually / aren't sexually dimorphic. > This video is accompanied by many other articles all arguing that transwomen are "female" because they say so, and therefore should be allowed in women's sex segregated spaces, sports etc. Trans women are female and should be allowed in women's spaces. That doesn't imply that humans are not sexually dimorphic. In fact, in implies the opposite: if humans were like amoebas and were not sexually dimorphic, then no one could be called female. Clownfish sometimes change sex naturally, but no one would say they're not sexually dimorphic. |