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Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature by xcrunner529 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @07:44AM (#33680483)
No but that’s a man made operation. Doesn’t change the origins biological sex. I think rather than trying to change gender from the original biological meaning, maybe (like someone else here said) treat it like a religious identity.

You can have a “personality” trait of masculine, feminine, etc.

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Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature by antiterra on Monday November 21, 2022 @10:21AM (#33693528)
I said women shouldn’t be defined by their fertility. This is inclusive of XX women. You blindly interpreted it as an argument to separate biological sex from gender.

The comment I responded to claimed that referring to someone by a biological function such as menstruating was objectifying. I don’t think that follows, because being fertile is not a requirement to be a woman.

Further, if all that matters to you to define biological sex is karyotype regardless of biological expression, that is like a religion.

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