No, I'm not "basically" saying that. I don't find transgender people "icky" at all. I'm saying that calling any animal a female when it is not, in fact, female, is untrue. And this simple untruth can lead to many other problems.

I ignored "human" because it's ridiculous. You know what a human is. So do I. If I were so inclined I could go and track down a definition. But I won't, because there is zero ambiguity in anybody's mind. You want to pretend there is because your whole position depends on obfuscating our shared understanding of the meaning of words. I'm not playing that game.

"Adult" is, I guess, slightly more interesting. Yes, it's absolutely true that there is ambiguity in how we define adult. Age of consent laws are largely arbitrary, and were adopted mainly because the onset of sexual maturity is too early for most morally intact people to accept as adulthood. Some will say it's the end of puberty, some will say it's not until sexual development is complete, but sure, it's a line we've drawn in the sand to protect children. I have no problem dealing with its minor ambiguity for that reason.

But female is not ambiguous at all. As I've already explained. And yes, we (or rather you) were arguing about what a female is:

"Finally who is female? Saying a "woman is someone who is female" is just as circular as saying that a woman is "someone who identifies as a woman.""

No, it's not circular. And it turns out, what a female is actually matters. Including for trans people.

For example, there's the case of Cameron Whitley, a trans man who neglected to tell doctors that he is female. His kidneys were shutting down, but doctors appraised him according to male blood toxicity levels to determine whether he needed a kidney transplant.

Those levels are different for females.

Cameron almost died because doctors believed that he was a male, and treated him according to male criteria, when he was, in fact, a female.

Or there's the recently published case in the NEJM about a trans man who went to hospital with abdominal pain. His medical information said "male," so the nurse, noting high blood pressure, apparent obesity and the fact that the patient was off his blood pressure medication, assumed hypertension.

Nope, turns out he was pregnant. A possibility the nurse didn't properly account for because, you guessed it, males can't get pregnant.

I honestly don't care what anybody identifies as. Why should I? If a man wants to live his life as a woman, whatever that really means when you think about it, I support them. I will and have defended the right to do so. I think gender diversity and non-conformity is a good thing.

But yet again, gender and sex are different. And female (and male) refers to sex. Sex is a matter of objective fact. Not identity. And however you identify, there are certain (only a few) facets of life where sex has to be taken into account. The failure of some members of the trans community to accept this simple, not at all hateful fact, is going to have negative repercussions for the whole community.

Topically enough, Macy Gray just demonstrated this a few days ago, right? It's crazy to be arguing about backlash I predicted when it's literally happening. I feel like Nostradamus.