trans people have the range

i 100% know trans men are men. (leaving out intersex ppl just to make question easier to ask/answer.) to me, male and female are referring to the biological sex of a body, not the gender. so like a trans woman wouldn’t have to go to the gynecologist because she’s not female. a trans man wouldn’t get a prostate exam because he’s not male.

in your post, were you meaning male as a gender rather than a sex? if so, yeah definitely trans men’s bodies are male.

Asking good-faith questions and wondering about gender vs sex and asking what exactly entails as radical feminist bioessentialism doesn’t mean you’re a terf, just means that you’re uninformed. It’s okay to be, it’s completely fine. And I’m glad you asked.

My body is male. It is male whether I transition MEDICALLY or not. It’s male because I am male. That’s the whole point. I was assigned female at birth, my genitalia is what it is, but I could have surgery, I could not have Perfectly Working and Functional genitalia, either. I could be intersex. I could be perisex. But if my gender is male, then my body is male.

Gender and sex are two different things. Just because my sex doesn’t correlate with my gender, which, most of the time that’s what it means to be transgender, doesn’t mean that my body is not male.

If my gender is male, my body is male. Because it’s mine.

If my gender is female, then my body is female. Because it’s mine.

If my gender is bigender, then my body is bigender. Because it’s mine.

That’s it. That’s the whole thing.

It’s infinitely funny when cryptoterfs try and impersonate trans men and keep calling themselves by the most medical, sterilized, impersonal language there is, because they out themselves as never seeing transgender people as people.

I dont live in a fantasy where I don’t acknowledge what’s between my legs or what hangs on my chest or how the world perceives me, I’m plenty fucking aware. But I also know who I am, what my gender is, what I’m transitioning towards. And I don’t ask for people to pretend I’m cis, because I’m not, and I’ve never been.

My goal as a medically transitioning transgender man is not to be cis. It is to be me. And be comfortable in my skin.

That’s what cis people never get. And what terfs will never understand in their life.

Thank you for asking in good faith and I hope this answered some of your questions! I am male, I’m a man! My body is male and I’m infinitely happier as a trans man than I ever was as a woman! I’m proud to be transgender, I’m proud of the scars, stretch marks, acne, body hair that I have, because it’s mine!!

And I love that I’m making my body somewhere I finally want to live in :) and that’s the whole point of life. Like tattoos, like piercings, like the clothes you wear and the color you dye your hair with!

To make your body the one you want.

There are a number of things that can make your sex more complex than TERFs believe. For example, a person with androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) is born with XY chromosomes. But their cells can’t process “male” hormones (either partially or entirely), and they develop as “female,” with breasts and a vagina. Someone with PCOS might have much higher levels of testosterone than a “typical” biological “female,” as well as facial hair, despite having the chromosomes and body structures typically associated with the female sex. That doesn’t mean they’re necessarily intersex (although some people with PCOS consider themselves intersex; that’s not a debate I’m going to weigh in on, since I’m not intersex myself and am not an expert, nor are my options relevant).

When it comes to infant genitalia, if the phallus (which can refer to a clitoris, penis, or something that’s a bit more ambiguous) is above a certain length, it’s considered a penis and therefore “male.” If it’s below a certain length, it’s considered a clitoris, and therefore “female.” If it’s in between, regardless of whether the health of the infant is actually in any way at risk (which it usually isn’t), doctors will usually perform a surgery, often without giving the parents a chance to better understand what they’re agreeing to before pressuring them into agreeing, and sometimes without actually asking the parents. A lot of intersex activism focuses on this, because both anecdotal evidence and studies demonstrate that these unnecessary surgeries that force intersex bodies to conform to societal expectations of only two sexes create trauma for the victims and often do damage that can’t be reversed, which affects the victims all through their lives. Since these surgeries are done on infants and children who don’t know what the surgeries are for, they can’t consent to these procedures, and many intersex people wish they hadn’t been subjected to them.

This is all to maintain the social expectation that there are only two sexes, but in reality, intersex people are as common as redheads. Most intersex bodies are made “female” because it’s an easier procedure, and then the parents are instructed to raise the children as female, whether the children actually identify as female or not.

When a trans person transitions, they can change any aspect of their sex except their chromosomes; because of that, a trans person who chooses to transition is no longer biologically their assigned sex. They may not be 100% biologically the sex they’ve transitioned to, either, but functionally and for all intents and purposes, they can be close enough that it doesn’t make much difference, or they can become something in between. That’s only a problem if society makes it a problem. But that’s for people who choose to transition, or who can. Some trans people can’t, or choose not to. OP described why that’s not the important thing here perfectly; If I’m male, my body is male, because it’s mine, so it belongs to a male person. This is true regardless of the complexity of my sex. It would be true even if I hadn’t taken any steps at all to transition. No one is more aware of the biological realities of trans people’s sexes than trans people; we don’t need anyone reminding us that our bodies are not cis, because we’re perfectly aware. But that’s not the point.

any flavour of trans (yes including “binary trans”)? you can call yourself genderqueer. fem, butch, androgynous, drag artist, crossdresser, or in any other way gnc? you can also use genderqueer. detrans but not in a radfem death cult kind of way? you too can be genderqueer. “i guess i’m basically cis but my other queer identity impacts my gender in a way that’s hard to put into words-” genderqueer!

like for example if you have a scientific study that says "we found women are at higher risk for xyz than men" you CANNOT just turn around and say "hey guys this study says afab people are at higher risk for xyz than amab people" because you DON'T KNOW!

like, did the study include trans participants? no? then it doesn't tell you SHIT ALL about how someone's assigned gender affects things, because it's not comparing afab people and amab people of various genders, it's comparing cis men and cis women.

oh, and even if it's a medical study you STILL can't jump to conclusions! "cis women are at higher risk for xyz" does not translate to "afab people are at higher risk for xyz" because there are afab and amab people with all sorts of bodies. for example, if cis women are at higher risk for whatever because of estrogen levels, a trans man on testosterone might have a risk level more comparable to cis men, and a trans woman on estrogen might have a risk level more comparable to cis women.

if the study doesn't conclude anything about WHY cis women were at higher risk, or you're not sure if trans participants were included, you might have to say something like "it is unclear how this applies to trans people."

Caption: [So, you're nonbinary. You've got your nouns figured out, you got your pronouns figured out. What could possibly go wrong? Until, there's a formal setting. You have to use a title. You don't have a doctorate! So you go online, you look "what are gender neutral titles", "nonbinary titles" and everything everywhere says "mx". It's fine. You just don't feel like its right for you. So what do you do?

Hi I'm Tuse, I'm nonbinary and I'm a huge linguistics and history nerd. And I want to share some alternate options for nonbinary titles. Let's start with what we already know. Mister and Missus. Those are the base gendered titles in English. Mrs. comes from Mistress. So, mister and mistress. The ending of those "-ter" and "-tress", those are the modern English forms of the Latin tor and trix.

So one great option is just removing the gendered ending. So just "Mist". I really like this because its simply, to the point. I like to shorten it with "M". But my favorite option is- Latin didn't have two grammatical genders. Latin had a neuter gender. And so, the neuter equivalent of "tor" and "trix", is "trum". So "Mistrum".

I really like this, I use it for myself. I like to shorten it as "Mm". And I really like it because it is unambiguous. It is very clearly not mister, not mistress, not missus, and not miss. That's what I like to use for myself. I love exploring other options for nongendered titles and nongendered language in general.

We have a tendency to come up with one option and then expect everyone who doesn't fit into the two binary options to use that third option. And we don't have to do that. If you have other options for what you like to use as your title as a nonbinary person, I would love to hear it. Please share!]

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