I wrote to your ForWomen scam a while ago with a question. I have
yet to receive an answer.
Perhaps you can help Mrs Rowling.
There was this statement on the website
"We believe that there are only two sexes, that a person’s sex is
not a choice, nor can it be changed. Women are entitled to
dignity, safety and fairness."
And I was wondering what the causal connection between the two
sentences is.
Does one limit the other?
Also, as it seems you two are not yet acquainted, might I
introduce you to the Curb Cut Effect?
In the 1970s a group of disability activists created a make-shift
curb cut in Berkeley, with some cement and a quick get-away. It
was the starting point for hundreds and later hundreds of
thousands of curb cuts to be introduced, though this development
didn’t happen without resistance.
And the exciting thing:
It was not only wheelchair users who benefitted, not even close.
Parents with strollers, kids with roller skates, bikers,
travelers, even the wheels of cars benefit from the softer change
in altitude.
So, no matter whose rights you want to protect: By enabling
accommodation they will benefit. And, according to the EU Report
by Köhler: The adoption of self-determination models when it comes
to gender, see improved mental health and increased awareness
regarding equality within several subgroups of society.
Also, the availability of gender-affirming care for female-born
people who identify as women is often highly necessary. Hormonal
regulators in cases of PCOS, fluctuating hormone levels, or the
contraceptive pill simply for the use of contraception, will
profit from further research into gender-affirming care, the
acknoledgment of varying body types in medicine, and generally
more awareness.
So, selfishly, as a woman, and as a woman with PCOS, I hope we can
improve health care, by safeguarding the rights of transgender
people, or people outside of the gender binary, because in the
end, it will be in my best interest as well.
Thank you in advance for your consideration!
With much concern and little regard,
Laetitia
PS: Where in your two categories of sexes would intersex people
belong? Around 1% of births account for children that are born
without fitting into the standard male or female body
definition, which does not fit in the binary idea of sexes
(Dreger, 1998). With 0.5% of people born with XXY chromosomes
(Visootsak, 2006), or Gonadal Dysgenesis, which is the only
partial development of genitalia, such as the lack of ovaries and
uterus, while having female external genitalia, which occurs
around once in 2500 births (Breehl, 2023).
Breehl, L., et al (2023). 'Genetics, Gonadal Dysgenesis'
StatPearls Publishing
Dreger, A. (1998) 'Ambiguous Sex -
Or Ambivalent Medicine?'. The Hastings Center Report. Volume 28,
Issue 3
Köhler, R. (2022). 'Self-determination models in Europe:
Practical experiences'. TGEU.
Visootsak, J., et al. (2006). 'Klinefelder syndrome and other
sex chromosomal aneuploidies' doi: 10.1186/1750-1172-1-42.
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Laetitia Stuchtey