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Almalieque, Rachel (however incommunicatively) was arguing for pages that gender should not be defined by genitalia. Not that sex should not be determined by genitalia, but that gender should not be be determined by genitalia.
False. Rachel was arguing both by interchanging gender with sex when he felt appropriate. Of course gender isn't determined by genitalia, again that's the entire point of the creation of the word; to differentiate stereotypes from sex. I've said that a million times.
Rachel also stated that sex IS DEFINED biologically. However, he also said that women could have penises. The last time I checked, a ***** is biological, not stereotypical traits as described with gender. So the correct label would be a man with a female gender. You can't just switch the terms man and woman to mean sex and/or gender to support your point.
If sex is biologically defined, then how does a person with zero woman biological traits and all man biological traits be defined as a woman? That person is defined as a man by sex with the freedom to choose to exercise either a male or female gender. Just because a man decides to choose a female's gender, it doesn't biologically change him into a woman.
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In light of this, and assuming Rachel is a male-to-female transgender, I'm assuming that Rachel would really appreciate the personal security of being permitted to use facilities that are concurrent with her gender but not her sex. I'm assuming that Rachel, for instance, would feel very uncomfortable walking back into the male sex bathroom that she's used for most of her childhood in a girl's haircut, make-up and feminine clothing. She'd probably feel very out of place doing that, and be aware that the men in the bathroom would probably be uncomfortable with her being there.
So I avoided from mentioning the hypocrisy in this sentiment when the thread was interesting. However, since it's pretty much dead, I'll bring it up. Where were all of these feelings when debating DADT? How come heterosexuals can't execute their same feelings to choose their surroundings when dealing with comfort? How is it "homophobia" for a heterosexual, but "ok" for not only transgenders but often women?
