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by DarkWiiPlayer 1931 days ago
> But I am challenging the oft repeated claim that a “transwoman is a woman” or “transman is a man”

I never understood how people are having that discussion. What gender a trans person is comes down to how you define gender and there's a clear divide between people defining it as more of a social thing and others defining it as a mostly biological thing.

Saying "trans women are women" is really just saying "I don't think chromosomes and genitals are the main thing that defines gender. So ultimately this comes down to a disagreement about a words definition, which is utterly pointless (unless you're specifically looking at it from a language perspective I guess, in which case it's probably quite an interesting debate).

One way or another, this has nothing to do with whether gender dysphoria is a delusion or not.