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What if a biological male is assigned female gender at birth? Would they be transgender, or just female?
by Foober223 6y ago
What if a biological male is assigned female gender at birth? Would they be transgender, or just female?
- andykx 6y ago1. When is that going to happen? (Genuinely curious if it does happen) 2. It is really up to the person.
- eggsome 6y agoRegarding 1: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34290981 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34290981
- geofft 6y agoThat's part of the reason that "biological male" isn't a highly informative/technically-precise term, but assuming you mean something like Swyer syndrome, there isn't really a reason to worry about estrogen making them infertile, so in context using the phrase "transgender women" would have been clear regardless.
- bashinator 6y agoThis is a bit off-topic, but "at birth" is a seriously wrong phrasing - they were assigned that phenotypical gender well before birth.
- microcolonel 6y agoThey would continue to be male, forever. "Female" is a sex, not merely a gender identity. At birth, nobody is "assigning" genders to you, they are attempting to observe your sex from primary sex characteristics. If they see vulva, they are observing a female; if they see penis/scrotum, they are observing a male. While there are edge cases, it is generally pretty simple.
- aidenn0 6y agoI think, since the assignment is typically done by a medical professional (at least for recording a birth certificate), the assumption is that the gender is either a quickly fixed clerical error or reflective of a phenotype that presents as sufficiently male/female to convince a professional. "Convincing a professional" is a reasonable proxy for biological sex, given that the cases that would fool a medical professional are in many (most?) cases sufficiently ambiguous that a reasonable person could take either side for what the biological sex is.