Originally Posted by
squark
There is a biological reality that makes someone a woman or a man, and there are degrees to which each individual expresses femininity or masculinity. A man who feels especially feminine is not a woman, and if he feels that his body needs to reflect how he feels, he is at best a mimic, and does not gain the biological reality of becoming a woman. Likewise, a woman does not erase her biological reality by changing her body or taking hormones. Men do not menstuate - JK is correct in that. Women do not have penises. This is biology. This is reality. Do some women feel more masculine or manly -sure they do, and some would like their bodies to reflect that, and would like other people to call them with masculine terms. They are women, who would prefer to be seen as men and live in the world as men. But they're still women. The problem people seem to have is that they want their gender feelings and identity to be recognized as synonymous with biology, and they're not the same. Back to the original point of gender and sex being separate. If they are separate, then one cannot determine the other, correct? That means you can call yourself masculine and identify by a masculine name and be referred to as him, but your biological sex is separate from that and it doesn't change biological reality, and doesn't change your genetics. No matter how much you want it to or how you feel.