Doing Better in Arguments About Sex, Gender, and Trans Rights ("Investigated" and Banned Medium Article by Kathleen Stock)
Orwellians from Medium.com at work (Note: The author of this article was the philosopher Kathleen Stock et al. This article was "investigated" and banned by medium.com. I think this essay is of philosophical interest and curation, especially since other academics wrote responses to it. Also Stock poses what I feel an important metaphysical problem towards the end in section three). Original link for reference is here Radical feminist and gender-critical philosophers challenge their opponents to avoid some obviously bad argumentative moves by Sophie Allen, Jane Clare Jones, Holly Lawford-Smith, Mary Leng, Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, and Kathleen Stock. 28/5/19: new fallacy added ( fallacy 9, section 1) and subsequent fallacies renumbered. May 23, 2019 We’re a group of gender-critical and radical feminist academic philosophers. In our work, some of us argue that women, by definition, are adult human females. On this view, since no trans woman is an adult human femal