GC: How can sex be unchangeable, when the body constantly changes? And throughout evolution, unicellular organisms transitioned and changed to the multicellular organisms we call humans?

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[–]emptiedriver 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When someone has plastic surgery, you don't say their body didn't change... But when someone takes hormones, and undergoes surgery to be given a neopenis or a neovagina, you go on the prolonged back and forth that the sex didn't change eventhough the body itself changed

It's the same thing. When someone has cosmetic surgery, whether of the face or genitals, they have altered their body but not their sex. Trans people are actually more likely to get facial surgery or other cosmetic alterations than genital surgery anyway. But even if they alter their genitals, it does not produce a working reproductive system or a new DNA code. It is called "plastic surgery" for a reason - it's not a working organic living system, but an artificial flesh sculpture set in place to mimic the real version.

You can change what you look like, not what you are.