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thanks, dan. this exactly. appreciated.
The philosophical arguments here are really a distraction from the important issues anyway, despite what these philosophers say. These words matter because they determine people's civil rightsânot because language has to be structured one way or the other.
But here is a good overview on Stock:
Stock, too, has made more egregious arguments than we had the space to address.
It's a common argument in our field that when something occurs robustly in many diverse culturesâin this case, nonbinary gender categoriesâit has a good chance of being, well, determined by human biology itself.
gender...