Who Makes a Woman?
Author Elinor Burkett asks if women and men have different brains in her quest to assert “What Makes a Woman?” The greater question she wishes to attend to is whether trans women are women. To Burkett, they are not. She asserts that many self defined Progressives are adopting an idea that differentiation within the brain causes differences in life paths taken and hard wires our gender within us all. That may or may not be true, these notions or ideas about brain differences. It is a straw man argument. Proffering such seeks not to discuss the greater issue, but to obfuscate it. We do not need to debate such notions, because the outcome changes nothing with respect to Burkett’s real claim, “that being a woman means having accrued certain experiences, endured certain indignities and relished certain courtesies in a culture that reacted to you as one.” Burkett further claims that “female is a social construct that has subordinated [women].” We can agree t