Trans Talk on Sidechat | I think the ways our bodies are medicalized is far more indicative that gender as a category came to shape sex as a category. (On Judith) I’ve got a friend who’s been transitioning for two years, she says putting down “male” on doctoral forms

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I think the ways our bodies are medicalized is far more indicative that gender as a category came to shape sex as a category. (On Judith) I’ve got a friend who’s been transitioning for two years, she says putting down “male” on doctoral forms—

Anonymous 1d

Would not be accurate, because the “software” her body/brain runs on is more akin to what would be called female. So, she puts down intersex. And, not to invalidate anyone, I think our brains/bodies can sometimes exist in a medical limbo. Because so little research is put into us beyond our capacity for suffering, people forget to think about us beyond beginning stages of transition. So we’re medicalized according to our sex at birth until suddenly, we’re anomalies that no doctor can assist.

Anonymous

OP 14h

Yea I’ve thought for a while about how putting down my sex assigned at birth really just isn’t accurate. Like at minimum a slight majority of secondary sex characteristics are changed by hrt. And more beyond that can be changed by procedures like surgery and hair removal. Like hell I’m already more or less 50/50 with just E. Maybe more but I can’t exactly check my heart and lung capacity. Like objectively I operate biologically quite different than cis men. For fucks sake I have a period now.

Anonymous

#1 14h

But the cis perception of this always tends to view this with WAY more skepticism and as if we’re just coping with dysphoria by being delusional or smth. But like. What else would hrt even be doing if not this.