“biological” is poorly defined. As a blanket statement it’s just wrong bc a trans woman that isn’t on hrt and hasn’t had any surgery is still a trans woman, but most of the biological aspects of sex are rooted in hormones, so in many ways a trans person on hrt is closer to their gender biologically than their sex assigned at birth.
It’s still context dependent which is relevant medically, but the term “biological man/woman” is just kinda useless in the first place bc of this tbh
From what I’m gathering from other comments it mostly seems to be a term that intentionally agitates people. People hear it and think chromosomes. Other people say it and mean hormones. Apparently some view “Biologically women” as a hate term.
The term doesn’t accomplish anything. Transphobes will disagree on a weaker stance anyways so you don’t need to elevate it. Allies will agree with a better articulated version (i.e. 'transmen on HRT have hormones that match a mans hormones".) But if an ally interprets the statement to claim “There is no biological difference between a man and a women” and disagrees based on chromosomes, then they will be banned from communities for transphobia.
Personally I’m still firmly on team gender != sex, thus claiming someone is or isn’t “Biologically [Gender]” feels like a misuse of the word biology in the same way I would protest the use of “biologically married”. It doesn’t make sense.
Hard nope on the biological women part. Simple X-ray proves that falsehood
“biological” is poorly defined. As a blanket statement it’s just wrong bc a trans woman that isn’t on hrt and hasn’t had any surgery is still a trans woman, but most of the biological aspects of sex are rooted in hormones, so in many ways a trans person on hrt is closer to their gender biologically than their sex assigned at birth.
It’s still context dependent which is relevant medically, but the term “biological man/woman” is just kinda useless in the first place bc of this tbh
I’ve had a lot of biological sex with your father actually and he disagrees.
Hey if you’re born a transwoman, what’s the last half of that last word?
define biological woman (ur banned lol so ull just have to read what educated people reply here ig)
From what I’m gathering from other comments it mostly seems to be a term that intentionally agitates people. People hear it and think chromosomes. Other people say it and mean hormones. Apparently some view “Biologically women” as a hate term.
The term doesn’t accomplish anything. Transphobes will disagree on a weaker stance anyways so you don’t need to elevate it. Allies will agree with a better articulated version (i.e. 'transmen on HRT have hormones that match a mans hormones".) But if an ally interprets the statement to claim “There is no biological difference between a man and a women” and disagrees based on chromosomes, then they will be banned from communities for transphobia.
Personally I’m still firmly on team gender != sex, thus claiming someone is or isn’t “Biologically [Gender]” feels like a misuse of the word biology in the same way I would protest the use of “biologically married”. It doesn’t make sense.
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a good explanation