The Virginia Department of Education recently released its updated policy guidelines for 'transgender' students. Specifically, the VDOE defines a 'transgender student' as a 'public school student whose parent has stated in writing that the student's gender differs from the student's sex, or an…
" students. Specifically, the VDOE defines a"transgender student" as a"public school student whose parent has stated in writing that the student's gender differs from the student's sex, or an eligible student who states in writing that his or her gender differs from his or her sex."
definitions. The first type of definition is wholly constituted by its stipulated parts, no more, no less. The second type of definition, however, points to some referent in the observable world."Ais a bachelor" is an example of a synthetic definition.. That is, for any word, its analytic and synthetic definition must, in principle, be publicly discernible and publicly communicable.
If, however, what the VDOE means by"gender" is a student’s in-principle wholly private, wholly subjective definition,if language and meaning are irreducibly public, then the VDOE’s use of the term"gender" in this third, unintelligible sense doesn’t rise to the level of saying anything meaningful at all.
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