• kipo@lemm.ee
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    19 hours ago

    Trans men are (or can be) biologically male. The best term to use for ‘non-trans’ men would be cisgender men. ‘Biological’ is the preferred term that bigots use to spread misinformation and insinuate that trans people aren’t real, natural, or equal.

    Someone else said it pretty well:

    Biological sex is a construct. It is based on the observable traits of:

    • Primary sexual characteristics
    • Secondary sexual characeristics
    • Gonadal Sex
    • Chromosomal Sex

    A fully medically transitioned trans person usually matches a majority of these, so it is totally reasonable to say trans women are biologically female, and trans men are biologically male. Generally, the binary categorization of sex is scientifically unsound; it should be understood as a spectrum.