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the way the right has boiled discussion on transness by saying trans women will always be “biological males” is despicable because taking cross hormone therapy literally changes your biological birth sex. your sex and sex functions is no longer the same after taking hormones for an extended time

by taking hormones you are literally, acientifically, changing your biological sex. and that’s a fact the right doesn’t want to ever have to confront

ironically liberal allyship of the 2010s has likely played a part in this too. it meant well, but promoting “sex is seperate from gender” plays into rightwing transphobic framing, in that you are playing dress up but your biological sex is wholly seperate

Is "transsexual" falling out of the lexicon also a part of this? It was often used as a slur, but with modern medicine it seems like it would be more accurate for some people (not every transgender person is on hormones, etc). I haven't seen much effort to reclaim it, so maybe I'm way off base.