Im finishing up my bachelors in bioscience and I was wondering what do you think distinguishes a transitioned woman who has had surgery, has the same hormonal make up as a cis woman, the sociological experiences that are similar to a woman's as they are female presenting. if its just the XX chromosome, aren't you reducing whole people to how their DNA bunches up? I have no idea what dysphoria feels like so idk why the urge to transition exists but it doesn't effect society negatively
I hope you are doing great in bioscience!
There are millions (hundreds of thousands?) of things that distinguish a woman from... a man or “a transitioned woman who has had surgery, has the ‘same’ hormonal makeup as a ‘cis’ woman, and the sociological experiences that are similar to a woman’s as they are female presenting”. We are more than XX vs XY as for starters there have been other documented types such as XXY or XYY. Additionally, sex is immutable and over 99% of the time is clear at birth by viewing genitals. That less than 1% born intersex as generally designated a sex, leaving a very small portion of babies to grow up into intersex adults. Along with viewing this primary sex characteristic we all have secondary ones, women generally are shorter, have wider hips, have more breast tissue, and the list goes on. “Female presenting” has nothing to do with “female reality”. You can’t present as a sex unless you are that sex, you can perform stereotypes of that sex and that’s what men do when they say they are “female presenting”.
Biological males, or transitioned women as you might say, do not have the same sociological experience as women and girls. Your sociological experience is part based off how others view you. A man transitioning at the age of 40 has not had 40 years of female oppression. A boy transitioning at the age of 15 still has not been oppressed or regarded as female at every step of his life.
And even if this was just “reducing whole people to how their DNA bunches up” so what? That is one of the main ways we distinguish female and male.
The effect on society is not one that most people are seeing right now.
They are not seeing how putting trans girls on girls sports teams will physically and mentally harm the girls. Coed sports are very common for young children where their biological differences have not yet begun to emerge. But by the time they are teens it’s a clear difference. A 15 year old 5’4 125 pound girl who plays soccer is not going to fair too well up against a 15 year old biological male who is 6’2 and 225 who “identifies” as a girl. This is going to end girls and womens sports because all these second rate men are jumping ship and entering our spaces.
Women will no longer be the safest people. Did you mother ever tell you as a kid that if you are lost in public to always find a woman or a mother? Before transwomen began being lumped in with women the most current rates showed more arrests for sexual assault among boys aged 10-12 than for woman of all ages. Basically stating an 11 year old boy is more dangerous on average than any woman. Since that research the number for female violent crime has rapidly increased as men have always been the greatest perpetrators of violent crime.
This also removes hundreds of years of women overcoming oppression. Women in the early 1900s couldn’t just “identify” as men so that they could vote, file for divorce, own their own property, etc. so they worked hard to make sure future women didn’t have to deal with that. Worked hard to make sure women are heard and involved in politics. Worked to make sure there are minumums on how many women are involved. But now those spots are going to men who “identify” as women. And there is nothing groundbreaking about yet another male politician/ CEO/ or other area women are underrepresented.
I hope this answers what you were asking!
