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0 pointscozyman3mo ago0 comments

how does one change their gender surgically?

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You can't, but since gender isn't defined by anything physical, there's no need.

bigstrat20033mo ago

That is only true if you're using an extremely idiosyncratic definition of gender. As far as 95% of English speakers are concerned, gender is defined by the body you possess.

defrost3mo ago

As far as nigh on 100% of Bugis speakers are concerned there has always been five genders and they'll tell you the words in their language they have for them.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buginese_language

It appears to be a cultural construct.

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Terr_3mo ago

Does that mean hundreds of years of English-speakers referring to sailing ship as "she" were all part of a conspiracy to hide that ships have jiggly bits? :p

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lovich3mo ago

The only real states of matter are solids, liquids, and gases. Everything else is just woke lunacy.

I am confident in this fact because I learned it in elementary school decades ago and it is impossible for humanity to discover new information that updates our world model. Every English speaker knows that “plasmas” and “Bose-Eisenstein condensates” are made up.

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WalterSlovotsky3mo ago

The preferred method would be gender affirming surgery.

cozymanOP3mo ago

affirming would mean the change has already taken place

BobaFloutist3mo ago

Right, because it has. The change in gender identity (or in choosing to make said identity more public )has already taken place, and the surgery seems to affirm that.

pelheit3mo ago

I think he means attempting to mimic some features of the opposite sex, with procedures like penile inversion and so on.

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delichon3mo ago

You can't, but since gender isn't defined by anything physical, there's no need.

bigstrat20033mo ago

That is only true if you're using an extremely idiosyncratic definition of gender. As far as 95% of English speakers are concerned, gender is defined by the body you possess.

defrost3mo ago

As far as nigh on 100% of Bugis speakers are concerned there has always been five genders and they'll tell you the words in their language they have for them.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buginese_language

It appears to be a cultural construct.

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Terr_3mo ago

Does that mean hundreds of years of English-speakers referring to sailing ship as "she" were all part of a conspiracy to hide that ships have jiggly bits? :p

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lovich3mo ago

The only real states of matter are solids, liquids, and gases. Everything else is just woke lunacy.

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WalterSlovotsky3mo ago

The preferred method would be gender affirming surgery.

cozymanOP3mo ago

affirming would mean the change has already taken place

BobaFloutist3mo ago

Right, because it has. The change in gender identity (or in choosing to make said identity more public )has already taken place, and the surgery seems to affirm that.

pelheit3mo ago

I think he means attempting to mimic some features of the opposite sex, with procedures like penile inversion and so on.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse