Category: gender
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Bogardus’s “Evaluating Arguments for the Sex/Gender Distinction” – Part 4 – Resistance
Should we think that woman is a gender-concept in order to resist biological determinism?
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Bogardus’s “Evaluating Arguments for the Sex/Gender Distinction” – Part 3 – What is it to be a woman?
“Gender” theorists can’t agree on what the gender-concept of a woman is supposed to be.
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Bogardus’s “Evaluating Arguments for the Sex/Gender Distinction” – Part 2 – “gender”
A philosopher questions a core claim of the new gender orthodoxy.
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Bogardus’s “Evaluating Arguments for the Sex/Gender Distinction” – Part 1 – What?!?
Gender isn’t sex – don’t we all agree about that? One philosopher doesn’t . . .
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Byrne on intersex people as an objection to AHF
Do people with “intersex” conditions show that a woman need not be a female?
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The Trans Children – Swedish Documentary
“detransition” | “transition” | documentary | gender | gender clinics | hormone treatments | trans | transgenderIn a follow-up report, the makers of The Trans Train examine the treatment of minors suffering from gender dysphoria. In this installment they reveal the person whom they previously interviewed anonymously and standing near a bright light. She is one of many “transitioners” who have since repented, or at least regretted their treatments, in particular…
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Byrne’s sixth argument for AHF – the words “female” and “woman” can be interchanged
We don’t like to hear the same word over and over. . .
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Byrne’s fifth argument for AHF: gender role reversal scenarios show that being a woman is not a matter of one’s social role
Check out this 10 minute short film. (Content warning: a little non-sexual nudity, and there is verbal sexual abuse here – although the shoe is on the other foot.) This is an imaginary situation, call it a “world.” There are people there who physically resemble what we call “men” in our world (i.e. in reality).…
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Byrne’s fourth argument for AHF – the similar case of girls
Philosopher Dr. Alex Byrne (MIT) compares the concepts girl and woman.
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Byrne’s third argument for AHF, “Eve” and “Adam”
Remember that AHF is the thesis that Necessarily, something is a woman if and only if it is an adult human female. Let me unpack that “if and only if.” The above statement is really a conjunction of two claims, namely: 1. Necessarily, if something is a woman then it is an adult human female.…