@xgranade Thanks to transactivists, transphobia has too many meanings now, ranging from hating trans people to not believing men can be women. The case here is not believing a male person with a male-only DSD is a woman. Do you consider this statement transphobic and does it hurt transpeople? @lxo@mjg59
@mjg59 > I did not accuse you of being transphobic, but the reality is that you were (apparently unknowingly?) supporting a transphobe. This is a display of tribalism, plain and simple. Have you never heard of the virtue of defending your enemy when they are unfairly attacked, or criticising your friend when they are being unfair? @lxo
@lxo > there's no doubt (in my mind at least) that she's a woman. maybe others have doubts, but are they in the free software community
What proportion of the free software community are skeptical that people with male-only DSD are women? That is a good question, though it can be hard to know because of the gender McCarthyism.
@mjg59 Basically you are saying that when person A accuses person B of something, and you agree with person A, then it is not ethical to criticise the way A expresses his views. @lxo
@mjg59 "Because I don't have a good definition of sex, I trust men including those who have fathered children or raped women that they are women when they say so, and I call anyone who doesn't a transphobe" @taylan@lxo
@mjg59 In other words, "a woman is a person who identifies as a woman", which is a circular statement and not a real definition, which makes any statement from you using the word "woman" meaningless, including "transwomen are women" that you repeatedly claimed that people should accept on or else ("transphobe"). @taylan@lxo
Sigh having to explain to an FSF Voting Member why "this woman is, genetically, not actually a woman" is transphobic even if the context is a woman who wouldn't call herself trans
@lxo Sex vs gender is like free software vs open source. One is a clearly defined term, the other has ambiguous meaning. The concern of men in women sports arises from the binary nature of sex, not a denial of nonbinary nature of gender, whatever gender means to each person. @mjg59
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