The_Walrus wrote:
So if you suddenly discovered that your chromosomes are not what you think, would that change your opinion of whether you are a man? Would it change how you behave? Would you be OK with people calling you "she" and "lady"?
I wouldn't care what other people call me. And I don't understand why that would be important. Maybe they call me a little girl or a p...kitty. So what? Their problem, not mine.
I'm a schizoid and wouldn't want to make my mental wellbeing depend on another person.
What some people do is making their mental wellbeing depend on whether 8 billion people see them as what they want to be seen (man, woman, unicorn, or whatever). That would be an apocalyptic scale problem for me.
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Whether one can change their sex depends upon what definition of "sex" is used.
Most living organisms have the capability to detect whether it's possible to procreate with another living organism. They may even detect how genetically close another organism is ("genetic similarity theory").
I think that's what sex is about. A man can't procreate with another man, even if one of the men transitions to become a woman. And men will detect that they can't procreate with such a woman, consciously and subconsciously (e.g. through pheromones, social interaction, etc.).
And about prisons:
When a man bruises the ego of another man in male prison, he may get beaten up, because he isn't a friend and he questioned his social status. To "negotiate" their social status by one man dominating another man.
When a woman bruises the ego of a biological man in female prison, she may get raped. To "negotiate" the social status by dominating her. If it wasn't considered gay, then men would probably constantly rape eachother in prison instead of beating eachother up.