• @trashgirlfriend
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    121 month ago

    Biological sex is not as cut and dry as you might think.

    Assigned male at birth is overall a better more descriptive term, as through medical transition trans people acquire different sexual characteristics.

    I’m not an expert in the field but this is how I’ve seen people more educated than me in biology describe it.

    • @captainlezbian
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      81 month ago

      Yeah. Biologically, my sex is distinctly transfeminine as someone post transition, before transition, I like many trans people was some variety of intersex, but assigned male at birth puts me into the big bin that means what they were trying to say.

      Though also blaming trans women’s assigned sex at birth for willingness to vote Republican is weird considering how much more likely cis women are than trans women to vote that way.

        • @captainlezbian
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          21 month ago

          You are correct, horse_battery_staple. (Sorry). But yeah, a white trans woman who’s a republican is notable, but a white cis woman who’s a republican is a significant portion of my coworkers. Hell, I’d be shocked if we weren’t more pro choice than cis women statistically, not out of superiority or anything but because we’re more likely to have been driven away from politics and religion that tend to promote anti choice beliefs and because we won’t have the miscarriage trauma that I’ve seen drives some women towards anti choice beliefs.

          • @horse_battery_staple
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            1 month ago

            This has absolutely been my experience. There’s a serious problem especially in “Christian” households of women to vote how their husband tell them to.

            On a completely different topic, if you find that folk need it, this has been useful in the past.

            https://www.mutualaidhub.org/