So what/if/mammals cannot change sex - Revision history

Woozle: Woozle moved page Irrelevancies/mammals cannot change sex to So what/if/mammals cannot change sex: better term / root page

2020-11-02T20:47:04Z

Woozle moved page Irrelevancies/mammals cannot change sex to So what/if/mammals cannot change sex: better term / root page

Woozle at 15:30, 27 August 2020

2020-08-27T15:30:50Z

Woozle at 15:23, 27 August 2020

2020-08-27T15:23:33Z

Woozle: Created page with "category:gender category:sexuality {{hdr/irrelevant|Mammals cannot change their sex.}} ==Usage== File:2020-08-27.screen.6 surprising animals that can change sex Anim..."

2020-08-27T15:01:14Z

Created page with "category:gender category:sexuality {{hdr/irrelevant|Mammals cannot change their sex.}} ==Usage== File:2020-08-27.screen.6 surprising animals that can change sex Anim..."

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[[category:gender]]
[[category:sexuality]]
{{hdr/irrelevant|Mammals cannot change their sex.}}
==Usage==
[[File:2020-08-27.screen.6 surprising animals that can change sex Animalogic.crop - not mammals.jpg|thumb|the lone comment on an article about animals that naturally change sex, observing that none of them are mammals (presumably in support of the idea that {{l/myth|Humans cannot change sex}})]]
This point is typically raised in "gender critical" (GC) arguments against [[transgendrity]]. The sequence tends to go like this (TA = trans advocate):
* '''GC''': {{l/myth|Biological sex is immutable}}, so trans women are just men in dresses.
** '''TA''': But there are several species of animal which change their sex as part of their natural life-cycle.
*** '''GC''': None of those are mammals. (Implied: humans are mammals, therefore this doesn't prove anything about humans, so {{l/myth|Humans cannot change sex|humans still cannot change sex}}.
==Analysis==
Although most GC [[proponentsist]]s will now skip directly to the hardened form ("humans cannot..."), effectively {{flag/red|moving the goalposts}}, the claims that biological sex is immutable and that changing sex is unnatural will still sometimes be stated, in spite of being refuted by the existence of these animals. {{flag/red|intellectual dishonesty}}

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	==Analysis==		==Analysis==
	Although most GC [[proponentsist]]s will now skip directly to the hardened form ("humans cannot..."), effectively {{flag/red\|moving the goalposts}}, the claims that biological sex is immutable and that changing sex is unnatural will still sometimes be stated, in spite of being refuted by the existence of these animals. {{flag/red\|intellectual dishonesty}}		Although most GC [[proponentsist]]s will now skip directly to the hardened form ("humans cannot..."), effectively {{flag/red\|moving the goalposts}}, the claims that biological sex is immutable and that changing sex is unnatural will still sometimes be stated, in spite of being refuted by the existence of these animals. {{flag/red\|intellectual dishonesty}}
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		+	This also illustrates that biology does not inextricably link gender and genetics.

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 ** '''TA''': But there are several species of animal which change their sex as part of their natural life-cycle.
 *** '''GC''': None of those are mammals. (Implied: humans are mammals, therefore this doesn't prove anything about humans, so {{l/myth|Humans cannot change sex|humans still cannot change sex}}.
 ==Analysis==
 Although most GC [[proponentsist]]s will now skip directly to the hardened form ("humans cannot..."), effectively {{flag/red|moving the goalposts}}, the claims that biological sex is immutable and that changing sex is unnatural will still sometimes be stated, in spite of being refuted by the existence of these animals. {{flag/red|intellectual dishonesty}}