That would be true except she and people like her are advocating that you can simply invent a gender and identify as it at any point and it is in no way related to chromosomes.
The chromosome answer is, I think, a figleaf that leftist academics use as their Motte in their Motte and Bailey tactic. It isn't the position they actually want, but it's the one they might retreat to that convinces people to stop attacking their position long enough for them to return to the Bailey of everyone being able to self-identify in any way at a whim.
Though that virtue part is probably that actual root of the baliey. If you're otherwise non-oppressed and you inhabit a world where status as an oppressed minority offers you elevated social credibility then you have to be able to invent some form of oppression in order to have any hope of escaping your oppressor status.
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Date: 2022-01-02 12:08 am (UTC)The chromosome answer is, I think, a figleaf that leftist academics use as their Motte in their Motte and Bailey tactic. It isn't the position they actually want, but it's the one they might retreat to that convinces people to stop attacking their position long enough for them to return to the Bailey of everyone being able to self-identify in any way at a whim.
Though that virtue part is probably that actual root of the baliey. If you're otherwise non-oppressed and you inhabit a world where status as an oppressed minority offers you elevated social credibility then you have to be able to invent some form of oppression in order to have any hope of escaping your oppressor status.