Like, so genders are social construct and different from biological “sex”, but identifying as a different “gender” requires surgery to change your “sex”? Is “gender” just personality? I’m so confused
Edit: also, the idea trans-affirming surgery and hormones is also absolutely horrifying to me for some reason; just, ouch
Someone pls correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe sex change operations are quite expensive (which really limits exploited people from getting their surgery that would help them a lot) and there are plenty of people that identify as transgender that don’t have the operation done. I AM confused about as to what would be considered transgender. Would someone with no surgery be considered transgender? I guess I mean is it a physical thing or is it mostly how you feel? Is it a combo of the two? I don’t mean this to be rude or anything, it comes from a place of wanting to understand better, thanks to any and all comrades that can help me out
All that is required to be trans is to not identify with your assigned gender at birth.
Medical transition (which includes surgery, HRT, hair removal, voice training, etc) is not required to be trans as this would exclude people who want to medically transition but cannot due to regressive government policy, lack of health insurance/affordability issues, conflicting medical issues, etc. and people who do not want or need to medically transition to express their gender.
That makes sense. Even as I was reading your comment I was thinking of it and thought “well if they didn’t have x or y or z surgery that they listed, I think they would still definitely be transitioning into their preferred gender”. I think the word “transitioning” was one of the biggest game changers for me that made me realize that it’s not completely a physical concept. Thanks for the answer, I’m excited to learn more about this topic, I see some good sources in these comments