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The transgender community is facing a silent genocide in the U.K. (www.advocate.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Because you can't surgically change someone's sex; or do you think that eg. trans women have wombs? Here's how the Canadian Institutes of Health Research explains the difference:

Sex refers to a set of biological attributes in humans and animals. It is primarily associated with physical and physiological features including chromosomes, gene expression, hormone levels and function, and reproductive/sexual anatomy. Sex is usually categorized as female or male but there is variation in the biological attributes that comprise sex and how those attributes are expressed.

Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, expressions and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender diverse people. It influences how people perceive themselves and each other, how they act and interact, and the distribution of power and resources in society. Gender identity is not confined to a binary (girl/woman, boy/man) nor is it static; it exists along a continuum and can change over time. There is considerable diversity in how individuals and groups understand, experience and express gender through the roles they take on, the expectations placed on them, relations with others and the complex ways that gender is institutionalized in society.

Yeah, sure, a pedant could argue that "gender correction surgery" is the wrong term since gender is a social construct and that's not what's literally done in the operation, because the operation is more about correcting (ie into accordance with whatever that person's gender is) external "markers" of sex and/or genitals, but that doesn't mean sex reassignment is therefore the correct term.

[–] kitnaht 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Sex refers to 2 out of the 3 things you've mentioned there. Hormone Levels and Function, and Reproductive/Sexual anatomy.

We can't change chromosomes (and gene expression is essentially the same category here) - so it's literally our closest attempt at altering sexually dimorphic characteristics. I've been told time and time again gender is fluid, can change on a day to day basis, is based on socially constructed roles, and the jury is still out on if it has nothing to do with sex, or has everything to do with sex. I've heard answers from both sides on that one.

So it makes no sense to me why we allow it to be called Gender reassignment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah I also think it's dumb. I'm not gonna change my gender, I'm going to change my dick into a clit/pussy. That's literally reassigning my primary sex characteristics. Hormones also changed my sex, do people think my boobs are a gender thing?