
just to be clear on this: they’re women but not female, correct? because woman is gender identity but female is the biological sex, which if they’re born male and transition to female, they’re only women by gender identity? i always never understood this, if anyone could explain (nicely) cause i’m genuinely curious!
yes babe it is. if you were a real biologist you would know there is no way to define a woman without excluding some women that you clearly deem as “real women.” trans women are women fullstop because sex and gender differ, and even sex gets way weirder than what we teach in high school and intro biology classes. which of course you would know as a biologist
this is my job i would love to! so the simplistic answer is yes, but when you start looking at sex on a deeper level, it’s a lot more complicated than just male and female. not only are some people intersex, but we also find that when trans people undergo hormone replacement therapies, they’re changing their markers for sex as well! this means that trans women can be considered women in both gender and in some cases sex. super interesting stuff!
so i understand the hormone thing which is cool fs, but their literal reproductive organs don’t change right (along with their chromosomes)? i’ve hear of like surgeries for like getting that look of the opposite sex, but it’s not 100% functional right? like just so it’s more clear to me where the lines differentiate :)
their reproductive organs do change through surgery and hrt! they can change shape and look. although the science hasn’t yet been discovered to make their reproductive organs reproductively viable, but there are also plenty of cis women who can’t have child for various reasons. i am not trans so id rather not talk too much about trans peoples genitals since its really not my place, but what matters is that it’s not as simple as it first seems
now chromosomes i could talk about all day! basically the simple version is that they still have their chromosomes, but their hormone replacement therapies can alter their genes (which is what im studying). additionally it makes massive changes to their physical appearance. plus we can also talk about intersex people and how their genes are more complex than just xx or xy. sorry im rambling a bit now but im happy to answer questions lol
I don’t think saying “they are women by sex” is the right way to phrase it. How about they are becoming biologically female or something? Like woman is a gender identity. Your sex does not matter. You can’t have “woman sex” and saying that “female = woman sex” is kinda backwards if being in support of the trans community
medical support isn’t the same as a science backing 🏳️⚧️. Those same medical orgs used to think female mood swings from periods were hysteria and performed surgery/lobotmies to stop them. I’m not gonna trust an inherently bureaucratic institution if someone’s fetish should be accepted as fact
you realize that medical standards have changed drastically since then + many highly extensive and peer-reviewed studies have been done on trans care, unlike with the mood swings & lobotomies? also if you still think being trans is a fetish as a college student, then you’re the type to stay in black-pilled echo chambers online. so nobody gaf about your opinion, at least until you educate yourself holy shit
Medical standards are just what they are, human made decisions. Peer review is flawed and disliked by the researchers that use them due to systemic bias and inconsistent feedback. When transsexualism is itself called a social construct by the very foundation, even the terminology was done in bad faith and exploitation (Ie John Money). Every MtF person I have ever met treats themselves as bimbos and sex objects, and this only seems to be the standard in a lot of media.
Just checking :) I’ll explain it though. Transgender identities are supported by scientific, neurological, and psychological frameworks. "Transracial" claims are widely rejected by sociologists and philosophers because they ignore how race is inherited and governed by community history
Then you couldn’t find the info on your own lmao Btw your own link reinforces that there is more than just a 2 gender binary system lol. Here’s the study though! Btw it took less than 1 minute to find it since I don’t have that link saved so in reality you’re just not using enough critical thought to do actual research.
i think it was a pretty good study actually, but acting like it 100% definitively proves trans women are women bc they have ‘woman brains’ isn’t really accurate. the articles even states that trans women are more ‘female’ than cis men, but they’re still far more ‘male’ than cis women. even their research shows a pretty significant overlap between male/female brains. also, trans men weren’t included in this study, so it’s not cis vs trans brains, it’s just focused on trans women.
that actually was a pretty interesting study! idk if it really convinced me of anything bc it even mentioned multiple times that more research was needed and it wasn’t 100% clear, but i’m glad that i read it :) i am interested in the difference they found between male and female brains though, bc everything else ive read says they’re very similar and the biggest difference is size lol. i also thought it was interesting that even within this study trans women were more similar to cis men
idk what you want me to say. one study where it acknowledges multiple times more research is needed isn’t exactly stone cold proof of anything lol? it proves their brains are different but that doesn’t prove that they’re women. i also don’t think you should be talking about being in bad faith after your response to sex based oppression
You acknowledged the neurological differences lol. You did that. So your earlier claim of it being an ideology is invalidated by the fact that you yourself acknowledged and accepted the information lmaooo You mean your baseless accusation of my stance on sex based oppression? Find me a screenshot when I said it didn’t exist! I’ll wait! If you’re being good faith that about easy, but you wont because you can’t
my ideology comment was in reference to the idea that trans women are women. the study proved there are differences but given the fact the results were still significantly different and were closer to a cis male brain, i’m not seeing the connection. i’m also not talking about you denying its existence, im talking about the very callous way you talked about a very dangerous and very real system of oppression that targets and hurts women.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t personally see the connection lol. An ideology wouldn’t qualify by definition to what occurs in this study and the information you repeated inside of it. So objectively speaking, by these structure of sciences and the language itself, you were wrong when you called it an ideology. Show me when I spoke about sex based oppression in a negative light specifically. I was talking about YOU crying about it because I didn’t let you deflect when you tried to accuse me
It’s hard to respect someone who is confidently and blatantly incorrect. Being trans isn’t a social construct and never has been, you just made that up. It’s supported by millions of peoples’ life experience as well as multidisciplinary studies (*not just peer reviewed). The decision on the medical standards for trans people were made in the face of overwhelming evidence for its efficacy. Though I suppose it’s hard to convince you with hard evidence since your “proof” is purely anecdotal.