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So, the recognition of oneself that they are a boy/girl/man/woman, which doesn't seem sexist unless that sense is based on something other than actual sex and is given precedence over actual sex. ... But looking at it now, it obviously relies on sex role stereotypes

If nothing else, it's appropriative. A man doesn't know what it feels like to be a woman or vice versa. I see GC women often reply to the idea by saying they don't feel like a woman. I rather think I do feel like a woman, because what else would I feel like? I don't know what it would feel like to be anything else, other than a girl. All of my experiences are physical; I will feel female until I cease to feel at all. And I don't understand why that is taken as reductive to so many people. Biology is our only access point; it is endlessly expansive.