the idea of a body-gender/social-gender split is bizarre, almost sartre-esque, reasoning. if every thing can be regarded as the same as everything else, then nothing means anything. the reasoning that you seem to advocate suggests that there are no facts, only states of mind.

that is exactly right, in much the same way that you don’t actually become younger just because you got a face lift and feel like you are.

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i think greer is right: “transgender women” *aren’t* women. gender is a biological feature but the transgender advocates want to turn it into a “state of mind”. the focus of “trangender” issues is cosmetic, as though a man can become a “woman” by getting breast implants and “gender reassignment” surgery. that would be…