So by âthe same conceptâ in that sentence, what I just meant was the proposition that when we speak of gender and sex we are speaking of one system structuring both âsocialâ and âbiological,â and not two separate ones.
The contention of the terf position is that there is one system, which is premised in the biological fact of âsexâ and to which the social manifestation (âgenderâ) is subsequent and directly related to. âGenderâ becomes nothing more than the fact of being sexed as a social subject. Recent terf rhetoric has identified itself as âgender-critical,â which does not dispute this but instead shows just how direct the relationship between biology and sociality is to them: the word âgenderâ can be discarded as conceptually extraneous because âsexâ to them already does all the work which âgenderâ might do. Itâs a reduction of both of them into one system, that of âsex.â
The intermediate step, to assert that âgenderâ and âsexâ are separate things, one referring strictly to the âfactâ of the body and the other referring to the way the social subject navigates the world, is motivated by the desire to rescue âgenderâ from a deterministic âsex.â By severing the mind and body, âsex and gender are differentâ discourse sought to make transgender existence defensible and theoretically possible by conceding the body, by granting that I might be biologically male, yes, but that doesnât mean that Iâm not a woman. This understanding of the relationship of âsexâ and âgenderâ is still wrong, but itâs wrong in a better and more productive direction than the previous position, and is I think a necessary stage in the theoretical journey to the next one.
The third stage is to look again at the relationship between âgenderâ and âsexâ after having removed the former from a directly subsequent position with regard to the latter, at which point it can be discovered that there is in fact an inextricable connection, that âgenderâ and âsexâ are manifestations of the same regime, but that that regime is social in origin and not biological. âBiological sexâ is not a natural category that gives rise to the social category of âgender,â it is in fact genderâs manufactured ground and is strictly regulated so as to appear to be a natural category; naturalized into the perception of the body so thoroughly that a great number of disparate individual traits which generally (but by no means universally) correlate are popularly imagined to be one totality. So while the systems of âgenderâ and âsexâ are in truth one, it is âsexâ that is produced by âgenderâ and not âgenderâ that is produced by âsex.â
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