Good article about and podcast interview of Philosopher Kathleen Stock, a self described “gender non-conforming lesbian.”
"I don't think even if you have radical surgical measures you can change your sex. I don't think you can change your sex. We're not that powerful, we don't have that sort of control over nature." "In 2018, I started writing about my concerns with [gender self-identification] in relation to the [UK's] Gender Recognition Act because there was a big push at the time to get that in place… and my concerns about premature child transition and calling trans women 'lesbians' and all sorts of things I thought were problematic about gender identity as a kind of motivating legal force. "Almost immediately that got me some attention - not good attention. People thought that I was being very cruel and couldn't understand why I was saying things like 'trans women are male' … They thought it was transphobic to say that." Stock argues it's an untrue and harmful idea that gender identity is an aspect of a person's "inner state" and "as soon as it expresses itself it cannot be denied and must be attended to and must override any discussion of your actual sex".
Kathleen Stock: the professor who lost her career amid toxic gender debate
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