QT: What about transgender women who are men?

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

If someone thinks of themself as a man, then why transition at all?

It's not a question of how you "think of yourself". It's a question of what you ACTUALLY ARE.

There are physical realities that have impacts on bodily capacities when it comes to sports, medicine, & so forth. Someone can think of themselves as someone who should have been a woman, someone who has a female soul or personality, someone who has the essence of a woman on the inside, but it won't change the fact of having a male body, and that's the definition of a man: a person with a male body. That's the part that affects OTHER human beings - they can't see your internal essence. They see the physical reality.

You can explain what you feel by saying you are trans, but you can't make people call it out when they see your male body. A male body = a man. Trans women who understand that just accept that technically, they are men, despite feeling like women. They are respecting OBJECTIVE reality, not insisting that their subjective worldview is confirmed by others.