From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 03:33:04 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Zinnia Jones went offline X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7091ebe929779a8bb3d5a3130060ba4ffc045fa7;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git Zinnia Jones went offline It's tempting to say something snide here like, "And good riddance!" but maybe that's too mean even for a commit message that almost no one is actually going to read. (Who reads the commit messages for a blog!?) It's a tragedy for the commons when someone's site goes down (https://www.gwern.net/Archiving-URLs)! --- diff --git a/content/2018/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females.md b/content/2018/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females.md index 9c44e3e..3a4be04 100644 --- a/content/2018/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females.md +++ b/content/2018/reply-to-the-unit-of-caring-on-adult-human-females.md @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ The point being illustrated here is that if it's socially unacceptable for peopl To this it might be objected that trans activists and allies are merely advocating for greater precision, rather than trying to make it socially unacceptable to think about biological sex: after all, you can just say "cis women" (which excludes trans women, trans men, and natal-female nonbinary people) or "assigned female at birth" (which excludes trans women, but includes trans men and natal-female nonbinary people and presumably [David Reimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer)) or "people with uteruses" (which excludes trans women and natal females who have had a hysterectomy) if that's what you _really mean_. -Alternatively, we could imagine people agreeing that word _woman_ refers solely to social roles and personal identity and must always be used in a trans-inclusive sense, while reserving _female_ for when people want to talk about biological sex. However, I get the sense that this is not a compromise most contemporary trans activists would find acceptable: witness, for example, [Zinnia Jones proclaiming that](https://genderanalysis.net/2017/10/medical-professionals-increasingly-agree-trans-women-are-female-trans-men-are-male/) "[t]rans women are female—with female penises, female prostates, female sperm, and female XY chromosomes." (!) +Alternatively, we could imagine people agreeing that word _woman_ refers solely to social roles and personal identity and must always be used in a trans-inclusive sense, while reserving _female_ for when people want to talk about biological sex. However, I get the sense that this is not a compromise most contemporary trans activists would find acceptable: witness, for example, [Zinnia Jones proclaiming that](https://archive.is/Fpaw3) "[t]rans women are female—with female penises, female prostates, female sperm, and female XY chromosomes." (!) Ultimately, I think all this is underestimating the usefulness of having simple, [_short_](https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/soQX8yXLbKy7cFvy8/entropy-and-short-codes) descriptions for the categories that do the most predictive work on typical cases.