[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by Livia

Well, the fact is that no person born biologically a woman has the Y chromosome. Transgender women do. That's the scientific fact. But like I say, that doesn't mean that if someone feels they are "in the wrong body" they should be denied that chance to live as they choose.

I'm not sure what Greer is thinking. Maybe like lostalex says she just being vicious, or maybe there's another agenda. I don't have much time for her in any case.

Yeah I agree with the factual-ness (not a word) of that and I'm not a biology expert or anything but the way I view it, is that our chromosomes are only a part of what form us physically and so are only really relevant as a focal point when looking at how we are going to be formed, rather than using them retroactively as a definition of who we currently are(I'm not saying that's what you're doing I'm just speaking generally on the issue of chromosones being brought into things), when everything including psychology is taken into consideration. So having a particular chromosone might mean we develop a penis at the beginning but if at a later stage we decide to change that surgically due to psychological reasons then it becomes something that is irrelevant in determining who we are. They're kind of the building blocks but we're so complex that we're able to say, ok, my body formed in that way for that particular reason, but this is who I actually am. And so it just comes down to whether a person should be judged gender wise based on how they were initially formed, or its based on everything taken into consideration and more importantly imo, who they judge themselves to be. And although science can be used as a way of determining someones biological sex, it can't be used to determine someone's gender because it's not a physical thing that can be seen. If any of that makes sense lol