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May 11, 2021Liked by Colin Wright, Rose Peterson

Wonderful piece... and well crafted. Thank you. Yes. Absolutely. Words matter. A lot. As a woman, a mother, and an adult human female.... I am beyond disturbed at this effort to erase the words that describe our experience in these sexed bodies... and give women a place to stand to describe it. I appreciate your clear and informative article. Sharing.

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May 11, 2021Liked by Colin Wright, Rose Peterson

Insightful article with some excellent points, this is a subject of particular interest to me. Language and more specifically, semantics and pragmatics, are the tools humans use to interface with and describe the world. For this reason, I insist on repeating that a rigorous defense of the biological sex category is inconsistent without equal rigor in defending its definition in law and policy.

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