All bearing the message ‘woman: noun: adult human female’ in 2018, radical and gender critical feminists in the UK began wearing t-shirts, distributing stickers, and sponsoring billboards. This insistence upon the dictionary definition of your message ‘woman’ had been a effect to a proposition to reform the UK’s Gender Recognition Act and work out appropriate sex a matter of statutory statement. ‘Woman’, these campaigners asserted, is not really something which a person that is male be, and definitely not based on their simple say-so. In response for this campaign, transwomen started publishing images of by by themselves on Twitter making use of the hashtag #adulthumanfemale, insisting that their status as transwomen made them not just women – given that popular motto (‘trans ladies are females!’) has it – but additionally made them female. Things never have gotten better ever since then, with a few transwomen claiming not only to be feminine, but become lesbians, too. You can be reminded, at this time, associated with exchange that is well-known Humpty Dumpty and Alice in Through the searching Glass:

‘“once I make use of a word,” Humpty Dumpty stated, in instead a tone that is scornful “it means exactly what we choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” “The real question is,” said Alice, “whether you may make terms suggest a wide variety of things.” “The real question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which will be master – that is all.”’ – Lewis Carroll (1872 1934), p. 205. Read More