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You're right. The answer to that is that people should not be able to change their gender--unless something gets invented that can change your chromosomes--but

You're right. The answer to that is that people should not be able to change their gender--unless something gets invented that can change your chromosomes--but if they can then age and race should be allowed, too. If anything, because by changing gender you can get all sort of advantages if you become a woman: - tax cuts if you start a company - retire earlier - you win at sport competitions - about 1000 other things If I feel like [insert minority], why can't I change my race and get the same benefits? If we have to be abandon common sense, we should be coherent.

kennywinker 8y ago
> unless something gets invented that can change your chromosomes Let me preent two arguments against that line of thinking: - people born with chromasomal oddities such as XXY or XYY, asked to fit in box XY or XX, they do not fit. Do we need a separate gender for all possible chromosomal configurations? There are more than you might expect. - while you can’t change your chromosomes, you can change how people percieve you in the world. Is gender (as in drivers license m or f) actually supposed to represent your chromosomal configuration - or is it there to match up with how you are percieved? Last thing: you point to advantages of being female. While I’d argue that those advantages don’t exist because being female come with disadvantages that balance things out, but even if they did, the cost of changing your entire identity makes them unappealing. I find it hard to believe we’d see any significant number of people doing anything like this.