Good question. Sadly, too many so-called biologists and philosophers don't know their arses from a hole in the ground on that question and tend to add more heat than light to the debate -- bit of a clown show in fact:
Edie: "... Queensland Attorney General Shannon Fentiman ..."
Hard not to conclude that Fentiman and ilk are engaging in Lysenkoism, ie, the "deliberate distortion of scientific facts or theories for purposes that are deemed politically or socially desirable":
Unfortunately, or not, it's not just the TRA tribe who are engaged in that "deliberate distortion" since it seems most women and most feminists find the standard biological definitions for the sexes as "unpalatable" as do most transwomen. A pox on both their houses.
Utterly chilling indeed.
The TRAs and Be Kinder brigades are naiive enough to believe the government's definition of "stakeholders" is fixed and not fluid. Oh, the irony
Edie: What is sex?"
Good question. Sadly, too many so-called biologists and philosophers don't know their arses from a hole in the ground on that question and tend to add more heat than light to the debate -- bit of a clown show in fact:
https://humanuseofhumanbeings.substack.com/p/binarists-vs-spectrumists
Edie: "... Queensland Attorney General Shannon Fentiman ..."
Hard not to conclude that Fentiman and ilk are engaging in Lysenkoism, ie, the "deliberate distortion of scientific facts or theories for purposes that are deemed politically or socially desirable":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Lotta that goin' round these days:
https://humanuseofhumanbeings.substack.com/p/wikipedias-lysenkoism
Unfortunately, or not, it's not just the TRA tribe who are engaged in that "deliberate distortion" since it seems most women and most feminists find the standard biological definitions for the sexes as "unpalatable" as do most transwomen. A pox on both their houses.
Some elaborations on the themes:
https://humanuseofhumanbeings.substack.com/p/the-imperative-of-categories