Ah yes. So you are ignoring that whole "hormones" thing, then. The fact is YOU and YOUR behavior are what exclude transwomen from the experience of being a woman. I honestly don't give a shit if you are a woman. You're still espousing shitty fucking views that don't correspond to the actual reality of cultural womanhood. It has nothing to do with you being a woman and everything to do with your generalizing your views to all women. You don't get to decide for "women" any more than I do. You get to decide for yourself. And that's it. As for me, I choose to decide for myself that I am going to respect people based on the lives they live, brains they have (and the hormones they soak in), behavior they engage in, and image they present.
It's right to respect people's lives they live in, behaviour they engage in, and image they present. But that doesn't change the reality of biological sex, and there are circumstances where biological sex matters. "Woman" is the correct biological term for female adult humans.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand on to biology, I guess. You shouldn't have stepped in that one. Just FYI.
Biological sex is not one thing (or two things). The fact that you pose it as one is problematic to say the least.
The fact is, sex is a lot of things, all mashed together and appearing comorbid enough to give the illusion, but not reality, of a binary.
There ARE two general modes. Two normals. But remember, the thing about normals is that they are like imaginary numbers. They aren't real. They are, well, hypothetical.
Now, back to biology... The thing you think of as biological sex is, in fact, many things. It is a laundry list of processes, mostly gated by chemical rates. Or as my friend G, who literally studies the chemical-mechanical functions of biological processes, states "It's all just rate controlled reactions."
Those rates, whether a single chemical unit or ten, are made, determines ultimately whether you end up making testosterone or estrogen. The problem is that according to biology (Google: dihydrogen testosterone exposure fetal development), it's actually a secondary reaction from the mother that regulates that step. And the thing about rate dependent chemistries is that outside factors make impacts to those rates. A significant portion of everyone is visibly affected by these rates.
And, these rates also impact, ultimately, what brain structures grow. It is more sensitive, I would imagine, than something as raw and varied as what drives our junk determinant signaling (DHT). And now we are talking the part that actually thinks about and "knows" itself. We know for a fact that the brain knows itself, knows things about itself, how it is going to relate to itself, determined before any sexually differentiating chemistry exists besides DHT. And here's the thing. DHT doesn't drive all the brain differentiation.
Usually the quantities of various stuff expressed on the X that is missing on the Y account for at least some of those initial likelihoods of differences. But that's all it is: probabilities.
There are well known studies that indicate (Google: Mother antibody feminization) that indicate in fact that there is a biological effect shown, quite clearly, that biological processes can absolutely push such an end as to create very interesting amalgams of sexual brain development traits. Sometimes this amalgam is more complete. Sometimes it's entirely in the brain, and the brain just has a bad time when given the body it didn't evolve to be grown into, but was on account of being, for example, the second or third XY processed by their mother.
I look forward to scolding you when you try to speak again about another topic you have read nothing about and understood less of.
These are all things that exist in the world. We aren't asking you to be a trans-whatever non-man xir person or whatever. Personally, I see that as a slur, so, don't be like Lion. or like me, I guess. Bad me. You get the point? I am not asking you to change who you are or how you act in general. I asking you that IF you wish to claim you talk about biology, understand that the biology is not this simple "X or Y, and that does it" kind of matter.
I have thought about this for so long. I have had so many questions about what happened and why. I am asking you that you stop trying to tell other people who they are and how they were born when you don't actually know.
I'm willing to keep an open mind knowing what can happen. It seems this leads to better outcomes.
It's almost as if a male person raise as a male doesn't actually understand anything at all about being female.
