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They identify with a sex that isn't the one assigned at birth. That's the definition of transgender. Definition: "denoting or relating to a person whose sense
by JimboOmega 9y ago
They identify with a sex that isn't the one assigned at birth. That's the definition of transgender.
Definition: "denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex."
- Chris2048 9y agoDoesn't "birth sex" mean "biological sex" as opposed to the sex "assigned at birth"? As in "what you are born as" with the assumption that a newborn child is totally unconditioned.
- JimboOmega 9y agoTo say that implies that there's no biological basis for people who feel transgender. You're thinking of "chromosomal sex". There's all sorts of other things that can happen that lead to a mismatch between these things.
- kodt 9y agoI think in this case though their identity and gender did match their birth sex, they were just assigned the wrong birth sex.
- shangxiao 9y agoThis seems to be the main issue of confusion here. It seems like maybe people aren't reading the full article? I didn't see anything that suggested that these children were transgender (biologically speaking)? (Or am I wrong?)
- delecti 9y agoIn general, the word transgender is used to describe people who internally identify as a gender other than what they were assigned at birth. In this case, the people described in the article grow up to identify as men despite being assigned female at birth. The definition is admittedly a bit weird when dealing with intersex people, but there you go.
- freeflight 9y agoSome people just want to see this as evidence for "genderfluidity" being an actual thing, which it ain't, it's actually evidence to the contrary.
- JimboOmega 9y agoThey quote one of them saying they were never happy as a little girl... before puberty I don't know how else to describe someone who appears female but feels wrong in that gender assignment. That's transgender.
- JimboOmega 9y agoI think a lot of transgender people would describe themselves that way. It is not uncommon to hear of transmen who talk about always knowing they were male and were really confused when their penis didn't grow at puberty. The point is the parts you're born with don't match how you feel. Just because the exact cause can be identified in this case doesn't make it invalid for others. If you had one of these kids at age 8 insisting they were a boy, but they still had a vagina... they'd be as trans as any trans man. There is a biological basis for the feelings trans people feel.
- kodt 9y ago