[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Withano

Do you know the difference between gender and sex? Because any F/M trans of the same age as you, also going through their transistion tomorrow would not have that same wealth of experience as a woman. They likely never saw themselves as a woman, and likely never lived their life as one. Their gender was never female and yours was - that parallel you tried to draw doesn't exist really.

I think this is the issue personally. People thinking you're only a different person after the operation. Its not the case. It was daft when Hegerty implied it, its still daft now.

The issue was in relation to the perception of how other men reacted to women when he was seen as male too....that's how I understood it.
Should she be in a male environment she may already identify as female whilst looking male, however other males would still react to her as male.

In many ways she would be better placed to comment on patriarchy being in a sense an incognito female.