I process them as male! I know in my og thread I said birth sex but actually it's more how they pass, which often but not always correlates with birth sex.
I'm continually clear what criteria for male the progressive framework uses - usually they say "feel male" but this makes no sense to me and I haven't found anyone yet who can answer my questions about what that means more deeply
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this is all part and parcel of the problem of trying to have a robust and strict theoretical framework like this. it just doesnt work in practice. too many variables in human nature to simply and neatly categorise us all like how words such as "male" "female" "man" "woman" want.
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like... part of the issue with referring to *any* trans woman as male, even if you personally read her as such is the political and social weight of the word "male" and how its used as a weapon against trans people's human rights and in service of harassment.
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