Trans Women Are (or Are Becoming) Female: Disputing the Endogeneity Constraint

Abstract The dispute between the transgender-rights movement and “gender-critical” activists represents a stark division in British public discourse. Although issues of contention are numerous require their own philosophical treatment, core metaphysical concern underlies them. Gender-critical activists, such as Kathleen Stock, tend to argue that recognizing trans women requires erasing category biological sex. This implies all male, thus them rips female biology from root “woman.” In this article, I view is mistaken. As exogenously produced sex characteristics should count toward person's classification, (or becoming) female.