Sex is also socially constructed

[marjaerwin]

Some people have lately been arguing that trans womyn are feminine-gender and male-sex and trans men are masculine-gender and female-sex, with the explanation that gender is socially constructed and sex is biological. It's not so simple. Gender is complicated and the above explanation borders on erasing butch womyn and feminine men. Sex is biological and is also socially constructed.

I should explain. Sex is naturally bimodal, but not binary.

The ways in which people are assigned, and sometimes cut up at birth, are socially constructed. The prioritization of genital arrangements over the reproductive system or the brain is socially constructed.

The ways that treatments which relate to our identified sex require all sorts of gatekeeping, while treatments which relate to our assigned sex can be forced on us, is socially constructed. If I remember correctly, Natalie Reed describes being forced into an unwanted mastectomy, and Zoe Brain somewhere describes being forced into an unwanted hysterectomy.

Yes, there are issues with brain sex theories, and especially with the misuse of brain sex theories to push rigid gender roles, but they fit the facts better than the other theories and the other theories don’t.