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Oh lord. Now, I went with you as far as “internet arguments are silly.” Now you want to start an internet argument with me that shows you don’t even understand the basic principle I was talking about in the first tweet. Really?

The basic idea is: the gender you are assigned at birth is just that, an assignment, the medical community making an (arguably) good-faith guess at what your gender is and telling everybody that’s what you are. But what the medical community assigns doesn’t dictate your identity.

so like what about what sex you are?

Sex vs gender is, imo, not a very useful distinction. I used gender throughout bc that’s the term we use (“gender identity” “transgender” etc). But AFAIK sex and gender both relate to identity, not what a doctor assigns or a society assumes.

yea afaik you're completely wrong on that part. your sex is biologically distinct based on your physical characteristics. granted there is intersex and hermaphroditism but that's referred to as disorders of sexual developement and is very rare in human cases

Who has the authority to define “sex” that way? I’m defining it based on the experiences of trans people (which I believe bc who would go through all that hate for nothing?) and bc the examples you gave make a “medical” definition hard. What’s the basis for your definition?

i'm gonna go ahead and say that your chromosomes have that authority to define sex that way. you know xx and xy. your genes the things that make you what you are. You cannot define something based off personal experience that's just an opinion

But you just pointed out that chromosomes DON’T define your sex. there are PLENTY of ppl with chromosome/gender combos that don’t fit your expectations. Gender is veeeeeeery biologically precarious. Idk why we can’t accept that it is similarly precarious in the brain.