Women are “the weaker sex”. If you’re living in a male-dominated world that just coincidentally happens to define “strength” by things that men happen to be good at.
But it turns out there’s quite a few important ways in which women are the physically stronger sex…
The article is bad science.
that is of more concern yes
Right and it is in part bad science because it is transphobic.
it doesn’t mention trans people at all. I think you’re reaching a bit.
No, that’s our point. Article is about women and doesn’t mention us, and assumes everyone with certain biological features/traits is a woman.
Unless a researcher is specifically studying trans women, they won’t have enough data to draw meaningful conclusions about trans women.
The article mentions research papers. The author is writing based on science, not just vibes. Every study will include sampling. They can’t look at every woman, so they have to pick a subset to represent the whole. A sample needs to be large enough to make statistically significant conclusions. The one or two trans women who might be included in the sample will not be enough to draw conclusions about trans women as a group. Unless a study is about trans women specifically, it can’t draw a conclusion about us.
Also keep in mind this is a one or so page summary of an entire book. The author may discuss trans women, I don’t know I haven’t read it. But those details would be unlikely to make it into a summary as condensed as the one we read.
I don’t think its reasonable to call this bad science, and the author transphobic from the information in front of us.
We do not believe we ever called the author transphobic, just the article.
does that minor difference in wording invalidate my points?
Exactly this. I’m trans and I don’t think this article is transphobic. Cis women are going to talk about cis bodies in womens’ spaces, and just as the topic of trans bodies will likewise come up in the same spaces, that should be encouraged.
This type of thing can certainly be dysphoria-inducing for some trans women, and I think that’s something we just need to self-regulate so everyone feels included and the original topic doesn’t get hijacked. There certainly are times and places to vent about biology articles that center cis women, and I think the best place for that are in specifically trans spaces.