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[–]InvoluntaryHalibut 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

but I'm not aware of any good alternatives

Mutilated themselves?

[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

That's the kind of thing I want to avoid. The only thing that terminology achieves is that it polarizes people even more, so it's pretty stupid.

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I'd say they had SRS surgery.

When blokes say they transitioned they usually just mean they put on a dress and a wig nothing more.

[–]absoluteblasphemy 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

You’re right that most of the men who transition just put on a weave and go, the number that have “the surgery” is a significantly smaller percentile.

However I did want to add that “SRS” is guilty of exactly what /LarrySwinger2 worried about because it’s not neutral. The term “sex reassignment surgery” implies that you can “reassign” sex whatever that means, the approval is inherent in the definition.

There’s legit no term for the operations that anyone, be they GC or trans, can agree on. Everyone wants to call it something different or just not whatever it’s currently being called.

Personally I don’t have an issue with people calling it mutlilation because it’s the only word that has stuck to these operations since they came into conception. Also I think they’re in violation of the Hippocratic Oath but that’s neither here nor there.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It's sex reassignment surgery.

They are trying to ape the opposite sex, the term doesn't mean they change sex.

You can't say gender reassignment because we don't have gender dimophism, we don't have secondary gender characteristics. These physical things all relate to sex not gender.

[–]absoluteblasphemy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I mean I’m in agreement that “gender” as a term has very little bearing on physical human beings, as we are a dimorphic sexual species.

However I don’t understand your argument because this is my point; no one agrees on what to call it. Call it whatever you like. Whatever it is and whatever it does do, what it categorically does not do is make a male body into a female body.

So in my opinion it does not change sex, it does not reassign it, because I don’t believe “sex” is merely the state of someone’s genitals or their hormone levels.

Edit: Hence I oppose the language, not like willing to die on a hill for it but just generally I think the notion is disagreeable.