So you see, getting back to the outrage-inducing 6:12 essay, anyone who was upset by the sentence “a woman is whoever she says she is”, indeed does not 6:18 understand language. Admittedly, it’s not the best wording. A woman isn’t Abraham Lincoln because she 6:24 says she is. Perhaps a more accurate way to put it would be to say that “woman” refers to whoever we 6:30 say it refers to. And we decided that it refers to adult individuals of female gender identity, 6:36 which includes trans women in addition to cis women.No, he is wrong. Sex means biological sex. Gender is a linguistic term that is sometimes used interchangeably with sex, but is sometimes used for language terms like pronouns.
Trump's executive order covers this, and uses definitions consistent with modern biology and centuries of use.
Sex is binary, immutable, and determined by the SRY gene. Trans people sometimes claim gender identities different from their sex.
I say this because Professor Dave denies that anyone uses these definitions. I don't know how he can be so silly, as it appears to me that 90% of the public and 90% of scientists use these definitions.
Professor Dave is also a Trump-hater, so it is fair to assume that he is driven by ideology on this issue.
Update: I listened to some more of this creep. He later rants about "Christo-Fascism" by Trump to replace govt web site terms like "pregnant people".
He then says he is on the right side of history, by siding with an LGBTQ rise to power.
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