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Nobody said anything about "superior". Men changing their bodies to match their gender are generally not prescribed estrogen, so it doesn't make sense to reference them in the context of people being prescribed estrogen, that's all.
you're really quite sure that trans women are not offered estrogen?
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How should one phrase that sentence without it becoming completely confusing? Would it be offensive to say "a person with an x and y chromosome"? Even though gender is only a social construct... for some reason, taking estrogen will have totally different effects on a person, depending on that gender.
Gender is not a social construct. Your gender is the ability to become pregnant or to impregnate someone. This statement is not about politics, its just mere biology. What's socially constructed is how your gender is presented or implied because of said society. No matter how society "constructs" your gender, you're still biologically male or female. Even with gender reassignment surgery - your'e still biologically m…
Yes, it is.
> Your gender is the ability to become pregnant or to impregnate someone
No, that's reproductive function. Which is closely related to (but different from) biological sex, and not particularly closely related to gender.
> What's socially constructed is how your gender is presented
No, gender presentation (and gender identity, which is related to but different from presentation) is not a social construct, though it is influenced by gender, which is.
> or implied because of said society.
If you mean “ascribed by” instead of “implied because of”, that's what gender, distinct from gender identity, gender presentation, sex, reproductive function, etc., refers to. So, aside from not understanding the terminology, you seem to correctly understand that it is a social construct.
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>>most people getting this treatment see themselves as women who are changing their bodies to match their gender, not as men who are changing their gender. I am assuming you have some sort of source showing that this person has the desire to transition? If not I am unclear why this fact matters in the context of this story of what appears to be a doctor forcing medication on a patient against both their and their gua…
The higher-order reason that it's relevant is that there's something of a moral panic going on about medical therapy for transgender youth. While this particular case (assuming that the news story is accurate, of course) seems like an entirely unjustified prescription that's also entirely irrelevant to any medical gender transition, there is absolutely a push to try to get doctors to be unable to prescribe estrogen o…
"oppositional defiant disorder" That's what they call mouthy rebels these days
Meh. It's a real thing. A small but not trivial portion of the public immediately lapses into a near-rage at anything that appears to be an authority figure. People seem to grow out of it. Maybe it's PTSD from poor interactions with past authorities, maybe it's some kind of pack hierarchy hold over, who knows-- but it appears to be a pretty widespread phenomena. It doesn't stop being real just because the description…
With the Internet, they now all get together and organize extremist groups. Before the Internet, they had trouble achieving a critical mass. This seems to be more of a middle aged thing than something people grow out of.
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you're really quite sure that trans women are not offered estrogen?
Trans women are offered estrogen, of course. Neither cis nor trans men are normally prescribed estrogen.
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Your statement needs a clarification: > 13 days of hormone therapy are unlikely to cause sterility . Yes, it's possible he won't end up sterilized by this. However: The breast growth triggered in men by medical doses of estrogen is not reversible and requires surgery to correct. There will be social ramifications for life. There may be other (non-virility) physical ramifications for life.
2mg of E2 for only 13 days and he needs surgery? Sounds very much like something a lawyer would say. At most a few mm of development/widening of the areola with the start of development under. Not noticeable unless you are actually measuring them weekly. It is common enough that a someone will have to go off HRT after only a few weeks and anything underlying breast development will undo itself, but not the areola. Bu…
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I mean, there's obviously a problem here.
To me, it seems like the system is working as intended. Rather well, actually, because a bad doctor was brought to light with a fairly benign case rather than something potentially deadly later on.
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Gender is not a social construct. Your gender is the ability to become pregnant or to impregnate someone. This statement is not about politics, its just mere biology. What's socially constructed is how your gender is presented or implied because of said society. No matter how society "constructs" your gender, you're still biologically male or female. Even with gender reassignment surgery - your'e still biologically m…
Hermaphrodites invalidate this argument.
Hermaphrodism is a genetic abnormality, not a normal state of being.