quite honestly, idrc who identifies as what. âgender is a social constructâ cool you can claim to be anything under the sun. ur biology isnât gonna change though (and thatâs i think what a lot of ppl miss, and i did too). sex based oppression is real and if you canât admit that, then idk where the hell youâve been your whole life ?!
some parts of biological sex are immutable but others are mutable.
you cannot change: your chromosomes, your genes, or which reproductive system you possess. but you can change: your body/aka all of your secondary sex traits, your hormone levels, your external genitalia.
when we see people on the street, we do not see their chromosomes, genes, genitals, or reproductive system. however, we do infer them, based on the bimodal female/male or intersex f/m understanding of biology. what we see is not necessarily the things themselves, but rather how they manifested physically.
since you change the physical aspects of sex (not just the way you look btw! there are other physical aspects of hrt/sex that would take too long to list lol) it is going to affect the way you are treated and the way you are viewed. as well as how u may treat or view yourself! a mtf body does not look or function the same as a male body. a ftm body does not look or function the same as a female body. if it did, nobody would take hrt!
transsexual bodies are unique, they do not function exactly like cis bodies of either sex category, they function like transsexual bodies. in a way, i guess you could say we are our own sexes. because the label of âfemaleâ or âmaleâ implies that every aspect of personal biological sex aligns with that same category, but in trans people it does not, typical sex identifiers wouldnât make sense.
sex based oppression is real, but sex based privilege is only granted to those who fit the male/intersex male category all the way through and through, and continuing socially to state yourself as such (trans people can face discrimination and oppression by publicly identifying as something different). sex based oppression applies to anyone who has or did have any aspect of femaleness.
sex based oppression is real, so trans women are privileged from not experiencing certain aspects of misogyny, like all uterine based misogyny. however, they can face lots of other kinds. all natal females are susceptible to all kinds of misogyny, but trans men/mascs may grow to not experience some aspects anymore, like social misogyny. all women worldwide face misogyny because of their female sex, the existence of trans people do not override this, but also, no trans person belongs to the oppressive male class as it functions.
