Your described 4th premises, along with its linked premise #5, are the contentious ones, in my understanding of the gender issue, though your nuanced phrasing of #4 opens up this aspect of it to productive debate. As far as I know, Judith Butler agreed that sex was biological, but gender was "fluid" and "performative." This theoretical position on gender then proved to be the thin edge of the wedge that, illogically, led to the claim that one could (and even should) change one's sex. So perhaps the only way to work back to the core premise (that sex is biological) is to question Butler's original arguments on gender?
Very nicely done. All of this is also about authoritarian attempts to control what can and cannot be thought, much less openly discussed and debated.
Am a bigger fan now. Was a fan but she has added her voice for woman's rights and she is a woman
Your described 4th premises, along with its linked premise #5, are the contentious ones, in my understanding of the gender issue, though your nuanced phrasing of #4 opens up this aspect of it to productive debate. As far as I know, Judith Butler agreed that sex was biological, but gender was "fluid" and "performative." This theoretical position on gender then proved to be the thin edge of the wedge that, illogically, led to the claim that one could (and even should) change one's sex. So perhaps the only way to work back to the core premise (that sex is biological) is to question Butler's original arguments on gender?