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Common arguments by Anti-Trans folks:

==== What is the definition of (woman/man)? ====

The correct response is "A woman is someone who identifies as a woman".

Sometimes, people reject this statement and claim it's a circular definition and not valid. 

However, it isn't a circular definition, because of use-mention distinction in philosophy:

A woman (use case) is someone who identifies as a woman (mention case)

Some say sex is based on the gametes someone produces. However, there's people who do not produce them.

The counter-argument is that that someone should be male or female, based on what their body "should do".

Bodies are not teleological however, are aren't "meant" to produce female or male gametes. They just are. There are people who produce both gametes too.

Thus, sex is not binary, and there isn't a way to group people into "man" and "woman".


https://kim-hipwell.medium.com/why-gamete-production-does-not-define-sex-ae80eb67c379

==== "We can always tell when someone is transgender" ====
Not true. And it's up to a person to decide if they want to use the label transgender.

**Trans people have already been using the bathroom!**. Transgender people existed for centuries.


Security guard kicked cis-women out of bathroom, as he thought she wasn't a women https://web.archive.org/web/20250506170851/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/06/boston-hotel-bathroom-same-sex-couple


==== It’s unsafe for trans women to use the women’s bathroom ====

No evidence was found that trans women using bathroom increases safety concerns. 

More importantly, studies have reported trans and non-binary youth  are at higher risk for sexual assault when not using the bathroom they identify with. 

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/143/6/e20182902/76816/School-Restroom-and-Locker-Room-Restrictions-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext


https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Trans-Bathroom-Access-Feb-2025.pdf


==== If I have to allow people to identify as any gender, then I have to anyone to identify as animals/other objects ====

This is a known as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope|Slippery Slope fallacy]] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt4f7QrfRRc). 

People advocating for gender rights aren't saying this at all.

If you run the argument backwards to as "not allow", then you can run into a bad precedent too.