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    It is not the case that Feminists should give up the sex/gender distinction on practical political grounds.

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    • 1.The sex/gender distinction commits feminism to the claim that the categories of women and men can and should be eliminated.
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    • 2.Ordinary social agents find the eliminability of gendered categories unintuitive.
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    • 3.Many ordinary social agents view their gender as a source of positive value.
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    • 1.Butler's performativity theory shows gender norms produce the very 'sex' they claim to merely describe, collapsing the distinction from within.
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    • 2.If 'sex' is already gender, retaining the distinction smuggles biological essentialism back into feminist ontology under a naturalized label.
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    • 3.Dismantling essentialism enables coalitional politics across trans, intersex, and non-binary subjects that the sex/gender framework systematically excludes.
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    • 1.MacKinnon argues the sex/gender distinction depoliticizes oppression by framing biological sex as a neutral substrate prior to social domination.
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    • 2.Treating 'sex' as pre-political conceals how compulsory heterosexuality and male dominance construct bodily categories as instruments of hierarchy.
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    • 3.A framework that obscures the political production of bodies cannot ground the transformative legal claims feminist justice requires.
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