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That TERF Owl's avatar

Adult: a person who achieved maturity or legal age.

Female: the sex of the species that produces the large gamete (though females unable to produce said gamete due to life stage or medical conditions are still female). For an organism to be female it needs to have developed along the evolved pathway associated with large gametes - eggs.

" they don't live as a trans women and have never tried to"

What does it mean to "live as a trans woman," and when policies have been initiated by Democrats under pressure from activists that give people no ability to second guess someone's self-ID in the moment, how is anyone given a moment to question whether that person over there is actually "living as a trans woman"?

Also, "passing" is irrelevant. They should use third spaces. "Passing" as an ideal only means "successfully deceiving others about who they are."

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`Adult: a person who achieved maturity or legal age.

Female: the sex of the species that produces the large gamete.'

So far as I am aware production of a `large gamete' or the once ability to produce them is not a prerequisite for entering the women's bathroom. How do you infer these characteristics?

`Also, "passing" is irrelevant.'

Buck or Blair at the interstate restroom?

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That TERF Owl's avatar

“How do you infer these characteristics?”

Ooh, are you going to play that game now where you pretend human haven’t evolved the ability to determine other human’s biological sex from patterns in facial features now?

Females are better at it, that’s why males like you are so often surprised by this.

No one needs to see genitals.

No one needs to know your DNA.

We just have to see a face (also, more accurate in person so linking to a bunch of photos from perfect angles, w/ The Best Filters, is unnecessary).

“The human face presents a clear sexual dimorphism 7., 10., 11., 18., 19.. Face gender recognition is an extremely efficient and fast cognitive process [6]. Even when images are cropped to remove all cultural cues to gender such as hairstyle and make-up, gender classification is correct in almost 100% of the cases in adult subjects [6], whereas 7-years-old children already reach 80% accuracy in the same task [21]. These data clearly indicate that biological cues in facial anatomy are sufficient for a very efficient gender recognition and this ability is acquired early during childhood.”

“We found a striking difference in categorisation of male and female faces. Categorisation of female faces reduced to 1792 pixels is at chance level whereas categorisation of male faces is above chance even for 112 pixel images. In addition, the same difference in the efficiency of categorisation of male and female faces was detected using a Gaussian noise filter.

A clear sex difference in the efficiency of face gender categorisation was detected as well. Female subject were more efficient in recognising female faces. These results indicate that recognition of male and female faces are different cognitive processes and that in general females are more efficient in this cognitive task.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0361923004001017?via%3Dihub

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That TERF Owl's avatar

People who say they can’t do this, especially females, are probably just being nice.

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TwKaR's avatar

I merely pointed out that your definition of an `adult female' is completely irrelevant when it comes to which bathroom a person should be able to use. (Your definition of adult is, by the way incomplete, or at least not objective, as neither majority nor maturity were defined and both vary by country/culture).

What you've posted about `facial recognition' of sex more-or-less backs this up: being a woman is about more than just age and gamete production. The number of natal women (be they butch or NB) who are harassed and/or stopped when trying to use the women's bathroom, which is a longstanding problem in the butch community that is being amplified by the current trans hysteria, is additional proof that 1) several characteristics are used by humans to identify sex, and 2) in practice women's perceptions are worse than the studies indicate.

I'll post links and books if you're interested in the harassment butch/NB natal women face by other women.

In fact, I don't need to attempt to refute the applicability of the studies you're posting to prove my point: the fact that you will not answer a direct question about whether you'd be more instinctively comfortable seeing a trans man like Buck Angel enter the bathroom behind you or a trans woman like Blair White implies that you know the studies are, at best, not entirely relevant on this point.

`that’s why males like you are so often surprised by this.'

Misgendering me is unnecessarily mean spirited. I have been conversing with you respectfully, trying to understand your perspective, and hopefully show you that not all trans people are like the `TRAs' you believe us to be.

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