recursiveparadox

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It may be worth asking yourself just how important what you're perceiving as the "usefulness" of words like "male" and "female" is that it trumps the way trans people sex our bodies.

I think that what you may want to address first is the objectivist approach you're taking to sex and sexuality (or, well, anything) and the language used to describe it.

To use what you've said as an example, it can be inferred that, in your opinion, a trans woman is female when, and only when, she has not only started hormone replacement therapy but had genital reconstruction surgery.

But, using the arguments you've made here about maintaining the purity or whatever of the words "male" and "female," others may (and have, as i'm sure you're aware) argue that, rather than being female, a post-GRS trans woman on HRT is a male with an inverted penis who is taking artificial female hormones to induce gynecomastia--in other words, trans women will always be male, and trans men will always be female (excluding intersexual trans people).

So, objectively speaking, which one of these is correct?

Or maybe what you're saying isn't that a trans woman who starts hormones and/or has GRS is female, but that she is no longer male.

But what about, for example, a cis woman who has PCOS that drives her sex hormone levels out of what you might call a "female" range; is her body no longer female?

What role do you think self-identification plays here when it comes to the way the body of a trans woman who is on HRT and the body of a cis woman who has PCOS are sexed?

I have to ask, what is it you think you're achieving by pursuing linguistic purism with respect to the words "male" and "female?"

To repeat myself, what makes them more valuable, cissexist words that they are, than phrases like "people with penises" or "people with XX chromosomes" or "people with breasts," which are actually much more accurate and precise and, yes, objective than words like "male" or "female" which could be referring to any one of dozens of characteristics--characteristics which by the way are, arguably, perfectly aligned with the people who use those words to identify their bodies in only a minority of the cases among cis people as well as trans people?