J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling
Please explain what differentiates a trans woman from 'a man in a dress and
make up', because I've been playing close attention to trans activists for a
decade now and the most common explanation I've been given is 'he says
he's a woman, so play along or you're evil.'
Runner up explanations:
A man is a trans woman if he's put in a lot of effort into looking like a
woman. However, a man who's made no such effort is just as valid a trans
woman as one who does. Trans women with beards and penises are
completely valid.
The existence of men and women with differences of sexual development
('intersex' people) prove that a completely different group of people who
don't have such disorders are trans if they say they are.
The true mark of who's a man or a woman isn't biological sex, but the
untestable gender identity that resides in all human beings, whether or not
they believe in it. At the same time, trans people must be given easy,
automatic access to cross-sex hormones and surgeries so they can alter
themselves to more closely resemble the opposite biological sex.
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