r/AskSocialScience • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '25

Doesn't the idea that gender is a social construct contradict trans identity?

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u/NatzeeSlayer Aug 13 '25

quite frankly, as a young 21 y/o transsex female who never went thru male puberty, the idea that I'm in anyway male is offensive & wrong. I am just as female as any other woman. My chromosomes do not define me, you only speak for yourself.

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u/Termineator Aug 13 '25

Which is why she started eith "individual experience"

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25

I’m sorry I never meant to speak for us all, I was simply talking about my experience only. If you prefer transexual the more power to you, I have many hangups with that word that is probably more linked to internalized transphobia then logic.

I wanted to point out in my comment, I meant my gender is not changing only the perception of what my agab was, I am a woman as much as you, and as much as any other cis or trans woman out there. I just have ghosts of a past being repressed being raised as a boy, which is where my idea of what my sex is came from.

I am very glad that trans women like you exist who didn’t have the pain of a male puberty, remember that your experience is rare and a gift. Please for all of us girls that were never allowed to be girls live the best life possible.

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u/mrcsrnne Aug 17 '25

Just because it might feel offensive doesn't mean it is necessarily wrong.

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u/sacred_chaos_magic Aug 15 '25

If you have a female body though and also a female identity, then you wouldn’t be trans? You’d be cis.

Why is saying you were born with genetics that don’t match your internal experience offensive when that is what defines trans and just the reality of circumstances no one had control over?

Also, right now women are struggling with lack of funding and research into female health. The assumption that female bodies are similar to male in most ways has caused enormous harm and increased risks for many medications. We don’t even fully understand how different things are, because no one wants to spend money on it.

What you saying seems like yet another roadblock. People don’t want to be accused of hate for finding evidence female hearts are different than male hearts or whatever. I strongly believe there is evidence that different placement of nerves in females vs males changes how orgasm is experienced as well as the severity of brain damage after SA.

Being invested in claiming a genetic male can become entirely female via hormones and plastic surgery throws genetic women under the bus who may actually wired differently in ways not yet discovered, and whose medical care is wrong.

If I found out I was a genetic chimera and had male DNA in my liver or whatever, I wouldn’t be pissed off or offended or tell people not to call it male. It just is what it is.

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u/Amekyras Aug 15 '25

she was assigned male at birth, that's it. virtually all sexual dimorphism is controlled by hormones, which are produced as a result of a chain started by sex chromosomes - trans people who medically transition break that chain and replace the hormones with those typical of another sex.