Originally a comment by Artymorty on It’s complex blah blah blah.
For the purposes of trans, the definitions of man and woman are incredibly straightforward:
A woman is the biological category of human that a heterosexual man is sexually aroused by. A man is the biological category of human that a heterosexual man is sexually averse to.
A transwoman insists he is a woman because he wants his body to arouse heterosexual males (either himself in the case of AGPs, or other men in the case of gays who “go trans”).
A transman insists she is a man because she does not want her body to be in the category that heterosexual males are aroused by. Either directly, because male sexual attention makes her uncomfortable, or indirectly, because she wants to socialize in the company of men and women without the burden of sexual objectification interfering with her social standing — she wants to be a “bro”, plain and simple.
The entire trans phenomenon rests on the innate human ability to tell the sexes apart. It does the exact opposite of demonstrating that the boundaries between the sexes are complex. It just gives people the false hope that lots of expensive, experimental drugs and surgeries can fool other people’s innate sex detectors. They can’t, of course. Not for very long. Even the best-masked transwomen and transmen let slip their true sex after a little bit of in-person company. And certainly in intimate company, you can tell. In fact, in many jurisdictions it’s the law that you *have* to tell: in places like the UK and California, despite their rah-rah trans nonsense, you can still be charged as a sex offender if you misrepresent your sex to someone before having sex with them.
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