OK, I'm just going to say it.
Aug. 23rd, 2006 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantryslutJust for the record, I wasn't born a woman (or a womon, or a...). I was
merely born with female morphology, thx.
merely born with female morphology, thx.
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Date: 2006-08-23 05:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-23 05:27 pm (UTC)It may in some sense be true that I was born a girl, if we could define that, but not an adult of any sort.
Then again, my quick summary of the year you and I spent as Tiptree jurors is that I am now much more richly confused about gender than when I started.
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Date: 2006-08-23 05:59 pm (UTC)I don't think I was born a girl. I was definitely raised one, though.
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Date: 2006-08-23 07:35 pm (UTC)I can see room for definitions that are more phenotypical than behavioral, which is what I was pointing at, but nobody is born a woman or man, in the same way that nobody is born an English-speaker or a piano-player.
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Date: 2006-08-23 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-23 06:01 pm (UTC)P.S. we'll also probably be able to make a definitive statement about the genetic profile.
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Date: 2006-08-23 06:19 pm (UTC)