“Biological male” IS a dogwhistle and I don’t want to hear otherwiseDiscussion (
self.MtF)
submitted 3 hours ago by
Kitty7333
Has anyone noticed an uptick in the terms “biological male/female” recently? And I don’t mean just in TERF spaces, but in like e
very mainstream discussion of trans people we will have many people just casually misgendering us but disguising it as something rooted in science. And the worst part is some of these people are genuine good people who want to be allies but don’t know the correct terminology. So please if you see someone who wants to be supportive but doesn’t know what to say then try and explain why these terms are harmful. I will give my reasoning for why its harmful:
We are not biological men.
Is a post op trans woman with female hormone levels and a fat ass and titties just as much of a biological man as Arnold Schwarzaneggar? I don’t think so. With the way these people adress us its almost like they don’t even know hrt exists or what it does. I
have seen plenty of people wrongly assume that trans women can not change their sex, but we do change our sex if we take hrt. That’s literally the reason we take it. And I don’t want to hear about chromosomes because they are mostly irrelevant in day to day life.
The only time this term even sort of matters is for reproductive topics. And even then we can still use a better term than one with literal “male” in the name. Like come on…
I personally kind of hate AGAB-ed language because its almost always used to misgender us in a “tolerable and acceptable way”. Sure it’s useful if we are discussing medical stuff but sometimes people will say “amabs and afabs” instead of “men and women” for even the most non-relevant to birth sex issues.
The term “biological male” pisses me off even more because it pretends to be some scientific term. The people that throw the term around remind me of a person that throws on a lab coat and goggles and pretends they’re a scientist when really they have probably never studied advanced biology in their life. And at first its just “biological sex” which is I guess kind if rational sounding but it quickly devolves into pure pseudoscience bullshit like I have legit seen people use terms like “biological name” or “biological pronouns” which is the furthest from biology something can be. Its like people just throw the word “biological” in front of anything and use it to tell you that you’re a man.
We need to seriously stop allowing this term to just be used willy nilly without any fact checking. Terfs using it is whatever because terfs will be terfs and there is no way to change their mind. But when your average Joe starts using it then that is proof we are losing the battle
. Most cis people view us as “fake women” or “men playing dress up” and we need to change that because the state of things right now is fucking grim.
