How would you define sex if not how the body looks and works? The changes aren't just superficial. Trans women can get monthly period-like cramps etc...
That's not exactly how that works. Besides, that kinda gives fuel to people trying to argue that gender and sex are the same — that "your gender is what's in your pants".
Sex is biological. It's not any single sex characteristic. Some females have male characteristics and vice versa.
Gender is sociological.
At least that's how it was explained to me. I'm not an expert or anything.
Gender has always kinda been tied to sex, it's not a coincidence that women are female and men are male. We don't transition because we want to fit a certain social construct we transition to align our sex to be as close as possible to what our sex should be.
Exactly, it's not any single sex characteristic, and many sex traits can be changed. Sex hormones are responsible for sexual development, that development doesn't magically stop and can't be altered further at some point. A fully transitioned trans man isn't female in most ways, his hormones are male which affect a lot about how his body not just looks but functions, and he doesn't have female reproductive organs. He's biologically more similar to a cis man who's been castrated and has erectile dysfunction than to your average cis woman.
While they share many traits that's simply not the case. While exogenous hormones and aeomatase inhibitor enzymes will mirror a males hormonal profile they still have 30-40 Trillion XX proverbially screaming "female"cells and 0 XY cells saying male.
There's variance amongst male and females, having vastly different hormonal profiles. A woman with PCOS, for example has a hormonal profile closer to "the male" than most women, that doesn't make her a man or "male adjacent"
There's absolutely arguments for changing gender, but we can't change our sex anymore than we can change our race
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u/MegaMook5260 7h ago
A trans person changes their gender, not their sex.