Do I pass as male?

You are taller than me at a the massive hight of 5'6 so don't worry about hight :P

TSR has been better recently on those threads I have found (not that I frequent many) although your total surprise that I was a medic and didn't make silly assumptions from the off is slightly depressing.

I feel mean saying this, but I love it when I'm taller than cis males, just because it happens SO OFTEN



I do apologise. Sadly, however, I am yet to have decent experiences with medical professionals on the whole. Maybe there's a bit in-between medical school and practising as a doctor that turns previously-decent human beings into jaded miseries

If I noticed you I'd know 100% you're male..

Humans have evolved over thousands of years, were smart even if you had PS done all over your face we would still know

EDIT - I realized my mistake, and I'm suprised, how is that possible, OP I think you're lying.

No one would notice if they were to see you in the street, but the most noticeably feminine part of your face is your brow. Men's brows protrude much further than women's, and without plastic surgery it can't really be altered.

Still, you look a hell of a lot more masculine than a lot of 'men' these days.

By the way, I will point out that before reading through this thread I did not know about the proper meaning of gender. So when you said ages ago about how John Money defined it, I changed my view from 'gender is normally binary' to 'there is something else that is normally binary to male or female, gender is not normally binary because it refers to social roles'. Thanks for the education

"They've skewed the meaning a little".
Agreed - it's being used wrongly by those who say what I've said.

A transsexual is a person who is male, but with a female sex. Or female, but with a male sex.
They call it a male gender, but with a female sex, or female gender, but with a male sex. As gender means social roles, gender is the wrong word! There are more than two genders as you say, and a person can function quite fine with their gender not being stereotypical within a society for their sex.

So what makes a transman male, despite their female sex, is not gender. It is something else. And this something means that it is not possible to function when this does not match their sex.

Or you could just define your terms. [If you have done this, you have done so terribly.]

If you repeatedly use two terms in a manner that is grammatically symmetric, i.e. use them in a sentence in a manner in which the two terms could be interchanged without changing the structure of the sentence, you could talk for a thousand years and noone will ever be the wiser.

For example, if you just harp on and on about how Jack is not John, and John is not Jack, that doesn't actually leave us any the more enlightened as to the nature of John or Jack.

Then they were having an argument about whether gender is binary. Well, NYU2012's 'gender' is not binary, Psyk's 'gender' is binary. So in my mind, their discussion was never going to resolve itself because they were talking about completely unrelated things, just both labelled as 'gender'.

I didn't mean to imply it's strictly binary, just that it usually is i.e. most people identify as male or female. That's not to say there isn't a minority who can't be classified like that.

Perhaps gender is the wrong word. That's the word your average layman would use for it, but maybe there is a more specific academic definition of it. Calling it brain sex makes sense.