Doesn't "gender confirmation surgery" imply having a vagina confirms you're a woman?

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[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Doesn't "gender confirmation surgery" imply having a vagina confirms you're a woman?''

Huh? "Gender confirmation surgery" on male genitals might be based on the idea that "having a vagina confirms you're a woman." But in fact such surgery does not create a vagina or vulva - it simply reconfigures a male's testicles and penis so that they roughly resemble a vagina and vulva in appearance, sometimes with tissue from other parts of the male person's body.

The idea that vagina = woman is a flawed one that reflects a male POV and a total lack of understanding of how sex is defined and determined biologically.

[–]aloris342 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think also that this also speaks to the problematic idea that a vagina is nothing more than a hole in a woman's form. This is a way of looking at the female body that really centers the idea that women, as women, exist merely to serve men sexually. In reality, the vagina functions as a complex channel between the uterus and the outside world, with adaptive functions that protect the health of the woman and any babies she might gestate and deliver.