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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The article asks what is the politically neutral answer to the question of whether a trans woman is a woman. I wonder why this is a political question at all.

Even if the statement "trans women are women" was uncontroversial and mainstream, it'd still be political. "Cis women are women" is political.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

How is “cis women are women” political when literally no one is arguing against that point?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

It might be nigh-universally accepted, but that lack of controversy doesn't change a thing. It's still a statement about identity and the relationship between groups of people, and therefore a political statement.