See if you can follow this conversation: "We're all assigned a sex." "No, sex is observed at birth." "...Did you get to choose the body you were born with?" "Of course not." "Then you were assigned a sex." I don't understand this logic, am I missing something?
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Nonsense. The cells in your body are replaced every few years, but the underlying biology which determines the new cells can't be rewritten. You can take hormones, but you can't rewrite DNA or swap chromosomes.
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The metaphor works. You can dye your hair, and achieve a simulcra of, for e.g, blonde hair. This can appear to others to be more or less convincing, depending. If you leave it, the natural colour grows back. The biology which produces the brown is unchanged.
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You don’t really understand the difference between fantasy & reality, do you?
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