I agree with most of what you say, but human can absolutely change their sex. What do you think hrt does?
Sex is a collection of biological realities, all of which lands you somewhere on the sex binomial spectrum. Some things are impossible to change (chromosomes and dna), while others are very much possible (ratio of hormones or sexual organs).
As you said, it’s impossible (at least for now) to change all of these biological realities. HRT is good for what it does, but it doesn’t fully change one from one end of your spectrum to the other.
Biologically, the only real purpose for a biological sex is procreation. Afaik, there’s currently no way for someone who was born as a woman (left end of your spectrum) to procreate as a man (right end of the spectrum) or vice-versa.
The rest is, to me, gender, not sex.
(And yes, one could argue that e.g. infertile people or people after hysterectomy/orchiectomy don’t have a biological gender, but then again, apart from procreation and maybe some medical stuff, the biological sex doesn’t really matter and everything else is really just gender.
And isn’t that also the basis of the concept of being trans? That the biological sex isn’t an imperative/doesn’t really matter and that thus you can change your gender?)
I agree with most of what you say, but human can absolutely change their sex. What do you think hrt does?
Sex is a collection of biological realities, all of which lands you somewhere on the sex binomial spectrum. Some things are impossible to change (chromosomes and dna), while others are very much possible (ratio of hormones or sexual organs).
I like this chart:
As you said, it’s impossible (at least for now) to change all of these biological realities. HRT is good for what it does, but it doesn’t fully change one from one end of your spectrum to the other.
Biologically, the only real purpose for a biological sex is procreation. Afaik, there’s currently no way for someone who was born as a woman (left end of your spectrum) to procreate as a man (right end of the spectrum) or vice-versa.
The rest is, to me, gender, not sex.
(And yes, one could argue that e.g. infertile people or people after hysterectomy/orchiectomy don’t have a biological gender, but then again, apart from procreation and maybe some medical stuff, the biological sex doesn’t really matter and everything else is really just gender.
And isn’t that also the basis of the concept of being trans? That the biological sex isn’t an imperative/doesn’t really matter and that thus you can change your gender?)