Expanded thinking

You will note that what it means to be a man or a woman has increasingly become malleable. Whereas 100 years ago the manner of dress and behaviour were hermetically controlled, all of that is off the table now. For each natal sex there are numerous examples of people who stretch the boundaries by living openly in challenge of the old restrictive archetypal models.

If we say that a man and a woman are respectively an adult human male and female, when we dig beyond those definitions we are faced with increased nuance. For transphobes (God bless their little hearts) they want to tell you that biology decides everything except even there we see anomalies like androgen insensitivity to name but one example. Therefore if Janet Mock, Duane Johnson and Ru Paul are all examples of men, they have a riddle to solve. It's nice to talk biology but the lived reality of each is what adds subtlety and nuance to the discussion.

Not being clever bunnies, they would like that we revert to 1950's models which aren't going to come back. So they have cornered themselves with simplistic rhetoric which does not address the daily lived experience of each of those individuals.

Critical and expanded thinking are always helpful except they are often blinded by hate and liberally peppered with stupidity. Oh were Mark Twain to be alive today he'd have as much of a field day as in his era if not more.