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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can I self identify as older and collect SS checks?[/quote]

Not only should you be able to do that, but you should be able to identify as an entire GROUP of people, men and women and other, alike, and collect a check for each and every one of them!

I mean, it's no MORE absurd than a 38 year old man declaring that "she" is a woman now, and demanding everyone use "her" preferred pronoun and allow her access to women's bathrooms and locker rooms.

I mean, we've already crossed that Rubicon.... So how dare anyone tell you that you CANNOT identify as a group of 9 senior citizens? [/quote]
HAHA I completely agree. I am a liberal, but even I am baffled by this insanity about how you “feel” is what matters re: sex/gender. That nutty logic can and should apply to many other contexts. Otherwise, let’s admit that biology matters.[/quote]

of course biology matters. That is why I, a previous poster, am I arguing that it's really transex, not transgender.

as I said previously, new and legitimate research is showing that sex is not just binary like male and female. Varying levels of testosterone, estrogen, and new understanding of sex and chromosomes is just as important as understanding that biology matters
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Citation(s) please.

Humans have two types of gametes and two types of sex steroids. There are, occasionally, anomalous outcomes, such as people with intersex conditions, but those anomalies don't change human definitions anymore than someone born with just one leg changes the biological fact that humans are bipedal mammals. Just like the extra chromosome someone with Downs Syndrome has doesn't make them non-human, but it also doesn't change the fact that humans have 46 chromosomes unless there's a birth defect.

Within the sexes, there are ranges of sex hormones, just as there are ranges of heights. Someone isn't less male because they have less testosterone than average any more than they're less male because they're shorter than average.

Biologically male humans cannot become biologically female humans. They can wear dresses. They can take drugs to help grow breasts. They can put on a feminine aspect and ask people to consider them a transwoman. But they remain biologically male. They cannot change sex. They can only change "gender" because gender has come to mean the performance that we stereotypically associate with a given sex. Transgender people seek to reinforce stereotypical behavior as a way to gain social acceptance of their performative behavior.[/quote]

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