Original post by BKSYes you are prejudice so I'm going to reply once and not get into a long discussion with you, mostly because I suspect we will never agree.
You are conflating gender and sex. Woman is a gender, anyone who says they are a woman is a woman. Just like with any other sort of identity
Gender is another word for sex. Females have two X chromosomes, men do not. If you have this you can say your gender is female or if asked what sex are you say female. If you are a guy you have XY. No ifs, no buts. No politically correct but logically and scientifically false logic applies.
Mutilated is subjective, may trans people would feel the body they were born with is the mutilated one if any state of their body is to be called mutilated. However, I feel it is generally disrespectful to call anyone's body mutilated because it has such negative connotations.
Watch the sugery they go through. Then tell me it isn't mutilation. Mutilation is completely altering something so its purpose can no longer be completely fulfilled in my definition. In any definition it will involve completely altering something. A person being born has not hade their body artificially mutilated. It is the way nature intended. I can't believe I am arguing this point.
Where or not someone grows a beard is to do with testosterone rather than taking estrogen. If a trans woman stays on anti-androgens or has had her balls removed, she won't develop any more facial hair. What facial hair she has already when she began hormones is usually removed through the lazer thing. The NHS doesn't do paying for boob jobs so I doubt many trans women her will have silicone breast. They will develop natural breast and they won't go away if they stop taking hormones.
Oh this process sounds much more natural than I described.
I don't see why genetics should be a relevant factor in a partner. There's people walking around with genetic intersex conditions who have no idea because none of us go around thinking about it or getting genetic tests done. To only be interested in someone's genes because they are trans is problematic.
If a man goes trans to be a woman than I am a fruit fly. Well, I will be after I get my wings surgically attatched. After all, I share a lot of DNA with them/we are quite genetically similar so why should genes matter? I am now a fruit fly.
To refuse to accept that trans women are women and trans men are men is prejudice. I accept there may be reasons someone might not sleep with a trans person that aren't about prejudice but most are.
Prejudice. That politically correct word again. I am not pre-judging anyone. A trans person can be intelligent. Funny. A good worker. But it is FACT they are not a woman. I mean is it prejudice to say a white person is white? No, just stating a fact. I am looking at a fact and calling it out. Not making any judgements about the person while doing so.
I'm not sure what you are talking about with unsure of their gender and platform points. Most trans people have thought about their gender way more than any cis person. Especially when deciding to transition because it's not easy you need to be pretty damn sure of your gender to be willing to go through with it.
A trans woman won't ever get pregnant. I think it's fine if being able to physically have a baby is a requirement you have in a partner but there's lots of reasons why a woman might not be able to- many of which you'd never know until you'd been trying for a while. If you'd not have a relationship with a woman who can't physically have a baby in general that's fine, but applying it only to trans women isn't even logical.
I really don't see it as that big a difference. If we are talking physical differences and a trans person who has medically transition, eg surgery and years on hormones, then there's plenty trans women you wouldn't know were trans unless they told you. The media skews people's perception of what trans people look like and it's doubled by trans people who have been on hormones for years often not being out.