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87blue

Is this moving the goalposts

From here:

At, around 15:31 James agrees with Dave (yikes, agreeing with at T R A N S P H O B E, kinda transphobic, James) that gender and sex are facts and troons don't have eggs, periods, and can't give birth.

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Women don't have periods/can't give birth because of some dysfunction in their bodies which can (sometimes) be cured with medical intervention. Women, by default, can all give birth and all have periods unless some physical deformity/disease prevents them from doing so.
No troon can menstruate (ever) and no troon can give birth (ever)

Sounds like moving the goalposts. Either that or special pleading. After all, there are exceptions to the default, yet he assumes transwomen can't fit into those exceptions because...they are trans? What makes transwomen women who have that physical deformity he mentions? Especailly since he admits that it doesn't always get "corrected"?
asked on Thursday, Oct 13, 2022 02:57:43 AM by 87blue

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Bo Bennett, PhD writes:

We can't know if this is moving the goalposts without knowing where the goalposts were first placed. In other words, we need the original argument or claim.

posted on Thursday, Oct 13, 2022 06:40:16 AM
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87blue writes:
[To Bo Bennett, PhD]

How is he defining what makes a woman? He sets up the fact that a woman must be defined by something had by default then admits that exceptions exist but trans people can't fit into that because they couldn't fit into the default in the first place...like said exceptions. 

[ login to reply ] posted on Thursday, Oct 13, 2022 06:06:11 PM
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Bo Bennett, PhD writes:
[To 87blue]

Sorry, I am not seeing what you are seeing. Perhaps one needs to read the whole thread. With what you posted, I see only opinions and rants.

[ login to reply ] posted on Friday, Oct 14, 2022 06:42:44 AM

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