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[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I’m not really trying to defend TWAW/TMAM because I don’t really agree with it, but I feel like you can make a social argument about some trans people. Like if someone is consistently mistaken for a man or women despite not being one, people they interact with will treat them as if they were that (this isn’t most trans people though). But, I don’t think that makes someone actually a man or woman though any more that I’d become a doctor if changed my LinkedIn to say I was and people believed me.

[–]DistantGlimmer[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I completely agree with this take. I think trans people can usually pass as their target sex and there's a good argument for trying to accommodate their desire to be seen that way as long as it isn't impacting other peoples' rights. It's when they say they literally are women or men based on "performing gender" that it really does reduce those terms to a bunch of roles and stereotypes