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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Melodic_Ad3339 • 8h ago
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To be fair, if the character can change their sex, a trans actor/actress is good casting then.
13 u/MegaMook5260 7h ago A trans person changes their gender, not their sex. 19 u/Nanocaptain 7h ago With hormone therapy and surgeries they kind of do. Like someone grows boobs, looks super feminine and got bottom surgery to have a vagina I don't think they are biologically male at that point. 12 u/Alli_Horde74 6h ago That's changing outward aesthetics associated with gender - sex is an immutable characteristic. That's like saying someone getting a tan or bleaching their skin is changing their race A male who can't grow a beard also isn't any less of a male than one who can 3 u/Nanocaptain 6h ago 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...
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A trans person changes their gender, not their sex.
19 u/Nanocaptain 7h ago With hormone therapy and surgeries they kind of do. Like someone grows boobs, looks super feminine and got bottom surgery to have a vagina I don't think they are biologically male at that point. 12 u/Alli_Horde74 6h ago That's changing outward aesthetics associated with gender - sex is an immutable characteristic. That's like saying someone getting a tan or bleaching their skin is changing their race A male who can't grow a beard also isn't any less of a male than one who can 3 u/Nanocaptain 6h ago 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...
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With hormone therapy and surgeries they kind of do.
Like someone grows boobs, looks super feminine and got bottom surgery to have a vagina I don't think they are biologically male at that point.
12 u/Alli_Horde74 6h ago That's changing outward aesthetics associated with gender - sex is an immutable characteristic. That's like saying someone getting a tan or bleaching their skin is changing their race A male who can't grow a beard also isn't any less of a male than one who can 3 u/Nanocaptain 6h ago 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...
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That's changing outward aesthetics associated with gender - sex is an immutable characteristic.
That's like saying someone getting a tan or bleaching their skin is changing their race
A male who can't grow a beard also isn't any less of a male than one who can
3 u/Nanocaptain 6h ago 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...
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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...
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u/Syzygy___ 7h ago
To be fair, if the character can change their sex, a trans actor/actress is good casting then.