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    Challenges→Byrne's argument fails on its own terms because his distinction between biological and social categories does not establish that 'woman' picks out a biological rather than a social kind.

    Byrne intends this distinction to show that 'woman' picks out a biological kind.

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    Robin Dembroff (2021) responds to Byrne and highlights various problems with Byrne’s argument. First, framing: Byrne assumes from the start that gender terms like ‘woman’ have a single invariant meaning thereby failing to discuss the possibility of terms like ‘woman’ having multiple meanings – something that is a familiar claim made by feminist theorists from various disciplines. Moreover, Byrne (according to Dembroff) assumes without argument that there is a single, universal category of woman

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