"Joe Biden said in an interview with a transgender TikTok star that states shouldn't have the power to regulate any health care related to a person transitioning from one sex to the other."
Indeed -- some serious pathologies wrapped up in the whole phenomenon of transgenderism. Most transwomen, in particular, are clearly madder than hatters.
Though the roots of that pathology go rather deep and "condemn" more than just the usual suspects. For example, see the archive of this oldish post at Quillette by Helen Joyce on "She Who Must Not Be Named":
Been a while since I looked through it, but this seems fairly typical:
"A woman, for me, is someone who feels that they are a woman. — Sally Hines, British sociology professor"
Rather "odd" for Hines, presumably a woman, to argue membership in that category is contingent on no more than subjective feelings. More or less giving carte blanche to various more or less psychotic male transvestites and sexless eunuchs.
But Joyce has a "nice" bit of analysis of the problem with that definition:
"You can’t define something in terms of itself—that’s an absolutely basic error. The whole point is to explain what the word 'woman' means, and you can’t use the word you’re defining in that explanation. (If you’re not seeing the problem, it’s because you actually do know what a woman is, and you’re implicitly substituting your definition into the bit about 'women in her social context' without noticing. Try this: 'A squawm is someone who feels like a squawm.' Now, are you any the wiser as to what a squawm is?)"
Largely why the only coherent definition is as an "adult human female" -- defining the category in terms other than itself. Though part of the wider problem there is that so many refuse to define the category "female" with any precision or to accept the standard biological definitions for the sexes:
"Female gametes are larger than male gametes. This is not an empirical observation, but a definition: in a system with two markedly different gamete sizes, we define females to be the sex that produces the larger gametes and vice-versa for males (Parker et al. 1972) ..."
A comment I left on the Daily Mail article about Biden and Mulvaney, not that I expect it to be published (in moderation at the moment):
"Sure wish the Daily Mail, and others, would stop using phrases like 'TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney, who is documenting the transition from male to female on the app'.
He's just 'transitioning' from a male to a sexless eunuch. No human changes sex."
Thanks again... the video "What is a Woman: Wrong Answers Only" is remarkably on point, in my opinion...
Indeed -- some serious pathologies wrapped up in the whole phenomenon of transgenderism. Most transwomen, in particular, are clearly madder than hatters.
Though the roots of that pathology go rather deep and "condemn" more than just the usual suspects. For example, see the archive of this oldish post at Quillette by Helen Joyce on "She Who Must Not Be Named":
https://web.archive.org/web/20200714210100/https://quillette.com/2020/06/20/she-who-must-not-be-named/
Been a while since I looked through it, but this seems fairly typical:
"A woman, for me, is someone who feels that they are a woman. — Sally Hines, British sociology professor"
Rather "odd" for Hines, presumably a woman, to argue membership in that category is contingent on no more than subjective feelings. More or less giving carte blanche to various more or less psychotic male transvestites and sexless eunuchs.
But Joyce has a "nice" bit of analysis of the problem with that definition:
"You can’t define something in terms of itself—that’s an absolutely basic error. The whole point is to explain what the word 'woman' means, and you can’t use the word you’re defining in that explanation. (If you’re not seeing the problem, it’s because you actually do know what a woman is, and you’re implicitly substituting your definition into the bit about 'women in her social context' without noticing. Try this: 'A squawm is someone who feels like a squawm.' Now, are you any the wiser as to what a squawm is?)"
Largely why the only coherent definition is as an "adult human female" -- defining the category in terms other than itself. Though part of the wider problem there is that so many refuse to define the category "female" with any precision or to accept the standard biological definitions for the sexes:
"Female gametes are larger than male gametes. This is not an empirical observation, but a definition: in a system with two markedly different gamete sizes, we define females to be the sex that produces the larger gametes and vice-versa for males (Parker et al. 1972) ..."
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3063-1
A comment I left on the Daily Mail article about Biden and Mulvaney, not that I expect it to be published (in moderation at the moment):
"Sure wish the Daily Mail, and others, would stop using phrases like 'TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney, who is documenting the transition from male to female on the app'.
He's just 'transitioning' from a male to a sexless eunuch. No human changes sex."