Emma Boudreau
2 min readMar 26, 2023

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I am in fact transgender... Because I was assigned a binary gender identity, male, at birth, and I do not align with the identity that was assigned to me at birth.

I am not born with " both sex organs," merely born with a different position on the spectrum of sex than most people. It's also not a medical condition, it's literally just my sex. Is your sex a medical condition? Exactly. Mine either.

My sex does not validate my gender, or transgenderness anymore than any other transgender person's sex validates their transgenderness. Sex isn't binary, you are clearly implying it is, but it isn't. There are things called primary and secondary sex characteristics. The secondary ones are less noticeable, but these are still variations in your sex. For example, some men have less testosterone than others -- a sexual variation, some men have larger penises than others -- a sexual variation. This might help you to learn more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_sex_characteristic#:~:text=In%20humans%2C%20these%20characteristics%20typically,and%20pubic%20hair%20on%20both.

Transgender people don't choose to be transgender, that is my entire point here. Firstly, if this was a choice, then who would choose it? Choose to be a social outcast and at constant risk of assault? Have you ever looked at sexual assault, domestic violence statistics, etc. for transgender people? Who would choose that? Not having civil rights in like half of the U.S..... who would choose that?

You might be delighted to know that your entire worldview falls apart once it is confronted with the following evidence, which has shown that transgender women's brains are physically different:

https://www.issm.info/sexual-health-headlines/study-compares-transgender-cisgender-brain-scans

I.e. Not a choice, as you put it.

Turns out, they're even more like ciswomen's brains than cismen's brains structurally:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/health.clevelandclinic.org/research-on-the-transgender-brain-what-you-should-know/amp/

So all of the Science is in direct contradiction to what you're saying. You are, in fact, CHOOSING to object to transgender people on the basis of some personal bias, given that all of the evidence supports the exact opposite of what you're saying. If you think that makes you cool or whatever that's fine, I think it makes you stubborn and prejudice.

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Emma Boudreau
Emma Boudreau

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i am a computer nerd. I love art, programming, and hiking. https://github.com/emmaccode

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