Norwegian Man Now Identifies as a Disabled Woman, Uses Wheelchair “Almost All The Time”

There is no objective definition of man/woman. Words and their meanings are socially constructed. Defining man/woman according to gamete production (or having a particular "body plan" for gamete production) might be reasonable in some contexts and defining man/woman according to gender identity might be reasonable in other contexts.

My simple thought -- address people as they wish to be addressed unless doing so harms them.

 

Perhaps I should clarify my meaning. One can come up with an objective definition of man/woman based on gamete production, but one can also come up with an objective definition based on some other biological characteristic (e.g., existence of a Y chromosome, or some feature of the brain). In some sense these are all "objective" definitions, but it isn't the case that any one of them is objectively the proper definition to use. Which definition we should adopt in any given context is a matter of social convention.

You could say the same thing about the word "parent". There is an objective definition one could use to describe the parent relationship from one person to another, based on one being the biological offspring of the other. But there is no "objective" rule that limits the word "parent" to this particular meaning. In certain contexts, it might be more appropriate to refer to a person who has parental rights over a child (through adoption) as the child's parent, rather than the person who gave birth to child but no longer has those parental rights.

 

So why is there a wnba ?

 

So this was really an attempt to brand all trans people with the issues facing this person, and try to give yourself more cover to exclude.