It is surely true that Yaniv is unrepresentative. But someone does not have to be representative to cause harm. Yaniv is a ‘reductio ad absurdum’, the ridiculous end-point of a series of logical deductions that requires you to discard your assumptions. If you start from the position that transwomen are literally women, then, inexorably, you must conclude that male people can force a woman like Shelah Poyer to treat their genitalia as if they were female. Most transwomen won’t do this, but Yaniv shows that some will. If you cannot see how this infringes women’s rights, you are reading the wrong
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