• yesman@lemmy.worldOP
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    Elmo says the goal is to make Grock “politically neutral”. Politically neutral is code for “politics that are inoffensive to chuds”.

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      The article asks what is the politically neutral answer to the question of whether a trans woman is a woman. I wonder why this is a political question at all. Send like a question for scientists - biologists and sociologists and such. Seems they have achieved something like a consensus on the matter. I don’t see anything inherently political about that, except that folks of a certain political bent have made it political. It’s not a matter of “what do we do in public policy about trans people” but “fascists refuse to accept trans people in society and have decided to lambast and punish them”.

      In case my position isn’t obvious, trans people are people and trans rights are human rights. If there wasn’t a group of people trying to make them into a second class group of citizens (or a group of “eradicated vermin”) we wouldn’t be having a political conversation about this at all.

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        The article asks what is the politically neutral answer to the question of whether a trans woman is a woman. I wonder why this is a political question at all.

        Even if the statement “trans women are women” was uncontroversial and mainstream, it’d still be political. “Cis women are women” is political.

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          How is “cis women are women” political when literally no one is arguing against that point?

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      Yeah there’s no such thing as polticially neutral.

      There’s bipartisan, there’s a political average, there’s politically apathetic, there’s political abstinence, but not “political and objectively neutral”.