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If transgender people want their gender expression to be a representation of their sex, they're doing it wrong.Sex is biological. I am female whether I wear pants or not. I'm female whether I have breasts or not. I can have a masculine gender representation, but I will always be a biological female.

I don't care if someone's gender expression is a representation of their sex. I do care if men-dressed/behaving-in-a-feminine-manner decide they should use the women's changing room and if boys-dressed/behaving-in-a-feminine-manner decide they should play on sports teams that have been designated for the female sex or attempt to get college scholarships that have been designated for the female sex.

Change your gender representation all you want. People are mostly only going to care (barring a few extreme people - the same people who care when kids were emo, etc) when you try to encroach on things that had been sex segregated for good reason. When you try to use "gender" and "sex" interchangeably.[/quote]

I don't understand. First you distinguish between gender and sex (correctly, in my opinion) and say that you don't care if people's gender expression matches their sex -- but then you talk about "men" using the women's changing room. As far as I know, there are no men who want to use the women's changing room (or women who want to use the men's changing room). What there is, is women (transgender women) who want to use the women's changing room and men (transgender men) who want to use the men's changing room. And if you say, no, those women are men (or those men are women), then evidently you do believe that people's gender expression must match their sex. I.e., people born with female parts in their pants must use the women's changing room, even if they live their lives as men.

Now, if that's what you believe, then that's what you believe. Please recognize, though, that

1. There are lots of people who do not believe that, and
2. You are spending a lot of time and thought trying to make life difficult for a small number of people who have done nothing to harm you except contradict, by virtue of their existence, your sense of how people ought and ought not to be.

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Transgender women are biologically male. Their gender expression is female, their sex is male. 
Transgender girls are biologically male. Their gender expression is female, their sex is male.

Their gender expression is not their sex.

Our locker rooms are sex segregated.
Many sports are sex segregated.
Some college scholarship opportunities are sex segregated.

The problem is people who want to use gender representation to take advantage of a sex-segregated environment/activity/opportunity.

Only when you conflate sex and gender do you run into this problem. A boy wants to dress as a girl, be called by a girl's name, use she/her pronouns? Go for it. That same child wants to try out for the girl's soccer team? I'm not so supportive. People of the female sex have historically had fewer opportunities to do sports, worse facilities and training, less money spent on them, and here yet again is a member of the male sex trying to get an opportunity that's meant for a female.[/quote]

Give it a rest, would you?[/quote]

In other words, you have no answer for this. [/quote]

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