Myths/Humans cannot change sex
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| Myth: HUmans cannot change sex. |
Myth
This is expressed in a number of different ways:
- You cannot change your sex.[1]
- Human biological sex is immutable.
- You cannot change your gender.
Reality
These claims tend to several decades of scientific progress in the understanding of gender identity. more to be written
Footnotes
- ↑ 2018-03-05 The Public Discourse: Sex Change: Physically Impossible, Psychosocially Unhelpful, and Philosophically Misguided:
- "sex isn’t 'assigned' at birth – and that’s why it can't be 'reassigned.'"
- "Cosmetic surgery and cross-sex hormones can’t change us into the opposite sex. [..] They can’t turn us from one sex into the other."
- "transgender men are not biological men and transgender women are not biological women." (quoting Dr. Lawrence Mayer)
- "Changing sexes is a metaphysical impossibility because it is a biological impossibility." (quoting philosopher Robert P. George)
- "Transgendered men do not become women, nor do transgendered women become men." (quoting Paul McHugh)