smartcooky
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I've had a hard time understanding what's commonly believed in the trans community, especially when everything seemed so fluid for a while. Googling for biology/sociology distinctions a few weeks ago, I came across a thread on subreddit MtF titled, "No trans person believes you can change biological sex, but sex and gender are two different things."
The top reply inverts this:
It has been a controversial opinion when I talked about it in the past, but my understanding is that it's the complete opposite (edit: referring to your post title). You can't change your gender, since it's innate to you. You can only discover it (or them, in some cases), especially when it doesn't match your assigned one.
Sex, on the other hand, can be changed, at least many aspects of it, since it is, to a large extent, an accumulation of physical and endocrinological characteristics.
Commenters go on to talk about how the average person and cis people are ignorant of human biology/endocrinology.
Whoever said this is dead wrong, and this can be easily demonstrated. If sex could be changed, then...
a. A man could have a sex change operation, and would then be able to bear children.
b. A woman could have a sex change operation, and then would be able to father children.
Since a and b are both scientifically and biologically impossible, it shows that sex cannot be changed. End of!
... and these are the irrefutable facts that all transgender apologists (i.e. those who argue that transwomen are women and transmen are men), including the ones on this forum, will always dodge. They have no answer, or at least no answer that would not be the subject of immediate ridicule.
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