I forgot about this thread.
I'm going to address the two of Manco's points that jumped out to me at first..
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Critics of assigning sex at birth argue that doing so is a conflation of sex and gender – once a baby’s sex is known, its gender is also presumed from that point on. This perpetuates the current attitude of conflating sex with gender, and sets up the situation where someone who feels their gender doesn’t match the way society perceives and categorizes them might feel they have the ‘wrong’ body.
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A lot of the language you’re using here (e.g. “magical brain identity”, “let the sufferer present as a woman”, “otherwise real women”) strongly implies that you have a problem with trans people. For example, “otherwise real women” implies that you perceive a trans woman as fake; a man pretending to be a woman. That’s a misunderstanding of what a trans person is striving for – they’re not trying to fake, they are trying to be. For someone who does not consider themselves to be a man and does not wish to be perceived as a man, the implication that they’re fake is little better than explicitly denying their gender identity.
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Right so you make a point about assigning sex at birth conflates sex and gender. Except the concept of gender as peddled by trans people and their enablers only exists to justify why transwomen are actually
real women. It otherwise has no usefulness. If you were to ask Joe Bloggs on the street for a definition of gender it would almost certainly have something to do with biology. So asserting that assigning sex conflates sex and gender is wrong because a vast majority of the population has no concept of gender; the doctor is simply making a factual biological observation. The idea that womanhood has a basis in anything other than biological reality is sexist and reactionary; the notion of gender implies that there is a proper and improper way for males and females to behave. People should be free to behave regardless of sexist cultural pressures, to say that a man acting in a way traditionally seen as feminine must therefore be a woman reduces womanhood to sexist stereotypes. So yes, I do see transwomen as men pretending to be women.
You are going to say that's a mean and bigoted thing to say, and that is your right. But I feel many trans advocates are guilty of projecting their contradictory ideology onto others. It's almost like you believe that everyone has a concept of this magical gender identity and believe that males and females are simply people who identity as such, but there is some conspiracy wherein we must identify with whatever the birthing doctor chose for us. If I say a woman is an adult female human and therefore someone who is biologically male can not by definition be a woman, I fail to see how I am being bigoted; I'm just recognising the reality of sex. I'm not trying to force any particular behaviours onto him, he should live out his life as he wills. Yet no matter how much lipstick and dresses he wears he will never be a woman and that is alright because it doesn't change anything; it is only a word.