Why Anti-Trans Culture War is Against Common Sense | TaraElla Clips

This is an excerpt from the article The Authoritarian Implications of the 'What Is A Woman' Wars by TaraElla.

To put it bluntly, normal people don't think of chromosomes or gametes when they interact with others. These things are in the realm of expert knowledge, not everyday life. Most people take a 'if it looks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck' approach to determine gender, which is undeniably the common sense position.

Under the 'if it looks like a duck' approach, many people already accept at least some trans women as belonging in the category of 'women', at least in everyday social situations where people are fully clothed. That trans women are genetically male is not even relevant in this most simplistic and most old-school of approaches.

On the other hand, the culture war activists are relentlessly attempting to supplant the 'if it looks like a duck' approach, forcibly complicating things by making people consider chromosomes and gametes where they are not even relevant. In doing so, it is destroying normal people's ability to ascertain and express reality, using commonly shared terms like 'woman' as they see fit.