It can't get the story straight, it's just incompatible. Same thing with Transgenderism and Non-Binary Queer Theory. Why do you need surgery if gender is a social construct?
I don't fully support the attempt to decouple gender and sex, but I have a broad enough perspective to realize that being a (wo)man means different things all over the place. So, sex is the stuff that doesn't depend on your culture. Gender is the stuff that does. Individuals who are transgender would live as the opposite gender without requiring sexual modification. It just means taking on the ephemeral characteristics of woman (eg). Plenty of examples of this. There is also precedent for castration and other attempts to transition sex. Here's where body dysmorphia comes in. The disease happens to people with respect to more than their genitals, but genitals are a popular area of focus.
TG/TS seem to be related concepts that get lumped together. A majority of transsexuals would be transgender, but a majority of transgenders need not be transsexual.
I'm more along the lines of gender abolition. It was created as a concept to intentionally remove the influence of biology on manliness & womanliness, making the argument you just did. Truth is, most cultures don't vary all that much regarding men and women. It's not perfectly homogenous, but it's similar enough to point out that many of the out-growths of gender identity are exclusively the result of biological sex.
Even when it comes to the concept of womanliness as a deep concept, the concept of womanliness and manliness is still, mostly, cross cultural.
And sure I get why castration follows an attempt to treat dysphoria, but you don't treat a disease by enabling it. You don't tell a schizophrenic that the voices are real, that's actually abuse.
The TG/TS difference has been intentionally eroded because both were Leftist rhetorical warfare strategies. They don't really care what happens to the people attached to those labels.
It can't get the story straight, it's just incompatible. Same thing with Transgenderism and Non-Binary Queer Theory. Why do you need surgery if gender is a social construct?
I don't fully support the attempt to decouple gender and sex, but I have a broad enough perspective to realize that being a (wo)man means different things all over the place. So, sex is the stuff that doesn't depend on your culture. Gender is the stuff that does. Individuals who are transgender would live as the opposite gender without requiring sexual modification. It just means taking on the ephemeral characteristics of woman (eg). Plenty of examples of this. There is also precedent for castration and other attempts to transition sex. Here's where body dysmorphia comes in. The disease happens to people with respect to more than their genitals, but genitals are a popular area of focus.
TG/TS seem to be related concepts that get lumped together. A majority of transsexuals would be transgender, but a majority of transgenders need not be transsexual.
I'm more along the lines of gender abolition. It was created as a concept to intentionally remove the influence of biology on manliness & womanliness, making the argument you just did. Truth is, most cultures don't vary all that much regarding men and women. It's not perfectly homogenous, but it's similar enough to point out that many of the out-growths of gender identity are exclusively the result of biological sex.
Even when it comes to the concept of womanliness as a deep concept, the concept of womanliness and manliness is still, mostly, cross cultural.
And sure I get why castration follows an attempt to treat dysphoria, but you don't treat a disease by enabling it. You don't tell a schizophrenic that the voices are real, that's actually abuse.
The TG/TS difference has been intentionally eroded because both were Leftist rhetorical warfare strategies. They don't really care what happens to the people attached to those labels.