“Individual Trans People Are Not Oppressing Women”

Written By Executive Director

Argument Submitted by: D.B., PhD

“You are saying that individual trans people are oppressing you but they are not. This person and that person are not doing anything to you.”

This is a classic case of False Substitution. This occurs when one person deliberately replaces the terms under discussion to create a different argument than the one you intended. This is one type of Straw Man argument.

To respond, you might note that when gender critical feminists critique gender, they are critiquing an abstract concept and its social effects. They are not accusing specific individuals of harming them. Clarify that what you are attacking is an ideology, not an individual or group of individuals.

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