Please consider writing your own letter about "biological sex"
Filed by: Gina de Vries
September 11, 2008 10:00 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/09/please_consider_writing_a_letter_why_the.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/09/please_consider_writing_a_letter_why_the.php)
Dear Cassandra,
My name is Gina de Vries. I am writing because I am disturbed by the exclusion of male-to-female (MTF) transgender women from your survey on romantic and sexual relationships between women. I would like to respectfully ask you to change your exclusion of trans women from this survey, and include transgender women as well as cisgender (non-transgender) women in your study. I am also writing because I am a cisgender woman in a relationship with a transgender woman, and if my partner were included in your survey guidelines, I would be happy to participate in your study.
You say that your survey participants have to be "a woman (biological sex)." The term "woman (biological sex)" is both a misnomer and essentialist. "Biology" is simply the science that studies living matter in all its forms -- which would lead me to believe that all living people's sexes are "biological," regardless of whether they are transgender or cisgender.
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