1. If males can be women, and females can be men…then what exactly is the difference between men and women?
2. What does it mean to ✨feel✨ like a woman or a man? Feelings are happy, sad, angry etc. What does woman feel like? What does man feel like?
3. If it’s feeling masculine or feminine then what about feminine men and masculine women? Are we now trans?
4. What is the difference between a “trans man” and a masculine woman?
What’s the difference between a “trans woman” and an effeminate man?
5. What makes someone transgender? Seems like you just have to declare yourself as such. How do you know who is and who’s not?
Just a few questions I have. Trying to answer 2 and 4 played a big role in my detransition and if you know a trans person I encourage you to ask. Not in a rude or confrontational way, but ask as genuine curiosity, they have to come to the answer themselves when or if they are ready.
Reminds me when I was in similar thoughts, though I did not give a fuck about being “transphobic.” I remember sitting there thinking the similar things, that T did make me happy initially and then it faded, it just took a long time to fade.
Can’t speak for anyone else, but what I think happened is I just grew out of it. It was a lot of things in beginning when I started T I was 21 and I was immature. Like any other 21 year old I kinda only considered the positives, I knew about the negatives but I just wasn’t mature enough to fully comprehend them, when you’re that age you think you’re invincible in a way. My mind was made up and I believed I knew what was best for me, being young and arrogant in that way. I also realized the truth about gender dysphoria, that it is a symptom of something and not a stand alone problem. So yeah you do just kind of “grow out of it”
Also I have since learned that T in a female body gives a huge boost of every and that very quickly masks depression and can look like a quick recovery from it…which makes my old therapist literally telling me that I’m good and don’t need to come back because I’m do so well, it makes it a bit darker in tone.
Sadly I don’t know how to get young people who want to transition to understand this, I do believe maturity is gained with age, so I don’t seem them coming around in the next few years and as a result many of them will likely pursue transition.
@TheNewBacklash@frankinsensible@zaelefty Even then plants are actually really binary, they have 2 gametes at the end of the day, even though the way the whole plant is can have both in various configurations simultaneously.
Bisexual flowers contain both male (stamen) and female (pistil) reproductive organs in a single flower. More than 90% of flowering plants are bisexual.
Unisexual flowers possess only one reproductive organ, making them strictly staminate or pistillate.
The prefix bi means two, just like bicycle.
I dislike the connection to trans they try to make. As a detrans woman with trisomy X I see my chromosomes dragged into this all the time. And like I got diagnosed sometime between 13 and 14. I think I was diagnosed during major surgery recovery and I was just too drugged to remember. Anyway, I have done the trans thing and I just see it as completely separate from the trisomy. At most I found some of the symptoms beneficiary at the time, tall, infrequent to almost non existent periods, and a delayed puberty (and one other that I’m not mentioning here). But they really don’t cross in my mind at all, if anything it kept me based in reality a bit more, hard to believe you’re male when you have a female only condition. But I see so many people try to conflate them and then use me as an example of sex not being binary because my chromosomes look different than most females.
Got a little off topic sorry. I don’t see anything inherently “queer” about DSDs, and I used to be trans and have always been SSA.
I’m curious…do you believe that trans people can change their sex since you seem to include hormones and secondary characteristics?
DSDs prove that DNA replication is messy and not consistent. Just because my chromosomes don’t look like most women doesn’t make me any less female.
Let’s evaluate that claim.
Sex is defined by organization of the body around sperm or eggs.
People with XO Turner Syndrome have bodies organized around eggs.
People with XXY Klinefelter Syndrome have bodies organized around sperm.
Wow, just two sexes still!