vampirequeen
Dickens
vampirequeen
I read the comment to mean that they only want transwomen who have had surgery not that a man cannot become a woman.
Do you believe a man can become a woman?
Of course. I know I am a woman and I was lucky enough to have been born into a woman's body. I can't imagine the pain someone suffers when their physical gender doesn't match their mental gender. At primary I taught a very distressed and troubled little boy. She is now a wonderful and happy young woman. She knew she wasn't a boy but didn't understand why she was different so was in a permanent state of distress and confusion.
We are not defined by our physical bodies but by our minds. Sadly things can go wrong in the womb. We accept that children can be born with all sorts of physical conditions that we correct if possible. Incorrect gender is just another physical condition that we can, if the person wants it, correct.
That little boy - after reassignment surgery - will still have XY chromosomes.
He will have changed his anatomy and, hopefully, be the happier for it, but he will not alter his biological sex. And that might become apparent in later life (or possibly not so late in life) if certain medical conditions that men are pre-disposed to, genetically, become apparent.
The little fellow was miserable because his internal sense of being did not identify with his biological sex. It was not, presumably, how he saw himself, and if he was expected - as society dictates usually - to conform to the norms of his biological sex, like most of those around him (especially at school), I can well see how he would be unhappy and troubled.
But this young woman is still biologically a man.
Whatever set of chromosomes a person has when they are born cannot be changed. This is because chromosomes are in all the cells that make up our bodies.
I doubt there will ever be the technologies that can change a chromosome in all of a person's cells - trillions of them.
There is no 'crime' in being transgender. Those of us who were lucky enough to grow up in an environment that didn't impose societal norms on its children, were, like me, probably identifying with both male and female in our formative years, without even knowing or understanding the concept of how-one-identifies. Because we - certainly me - were just allowed to be. But none of that alters the facts - men cannot biologically become women, nor women - men. They can only alter their anatomy and indulge their inner-being, and identify with... well whatever sex they want to identify with, or both - or even none.
