"Biologically male/female" - an outdated (and harmful) notion

[Norik]

I don't understand: Why do transgender people make such a big deal about what people call them? I think it's a moral issue with the way sexes are portrayed by society rather than real biological discomfort -although I know very little on the topic and I'm most likely wrong.

 

[MntT77]

I don't understand: Why do transgender people make such a big deal about what people call them? I think it's a moral issue with the way sexes are portrayed by society rather than real biological discomfort -although I know very little on the topic and I'm most likely wrong.

That relates to gender, not necessarily their sex. Binary gender is a similarly dangerous and outdated line of thought.

For people who are happy with their gender they were assigned, they don't have to think on it all that much, and therefore it can be tempting to see it as being 'unimportant', when in reality it is a pretty significant part of a person's identity. It doesn't define them by any means, but it is significant. (And I don't mean that in the sense that 'men like x, women like y' etc.)

 

[TwistedAsura]

Um.Interesting read. All I have to say.

 

[Wandrian]

How about the concept of gender indentity?

 

[HolyCarp]

I don't know much about this subject, but I have to admit that for someone to cease to accept their biologically "assigned gender" and decide that their sex shouldn't dictate their identity takes a lot of courage.

Even on a simple level, a man who decides he should be a woman... Well, that takes balls.
...damn it, I knew I wouldn't be able to make a serious post without a bad pun.