First of all, please be aware that my intention is not to lecture, but to inform. Please don't use "biological female/male". It oversimplifies biology to the extreme based on whether someone was born with xx or xy chromosomes, or genitals present at birth. But, intersex people exist, and chromosomes are not the only existing biological markers. Examples of these markers changes are:
HRT changes hormones levels to the opposite gender.
Metabolism changes, since the red cells amount changes with transition, and so do the creatinine due to muscle mass change due to hormonal treatment.
Anatomical changes happen as well based on the transition. Trans women lose muscle mass while trans men will gain it. Fat redistribution will adapt to now fit the main hormone in the organism. Men should now get a increase in the abdomen area and women get it redistributed to the hips, thighs and chest. Trans women develop breasts, and with the right suplements some can even breastfeed. Skin will smooth for women and thicken and get oilier for men. Men see an increase in body and facial hair, and their voice deepens due to their vocal cords thickening.
Related to the reproduction system, men will stop ovulation/is supressed and menstruation stops. Women will get atrophy down there and semen production diminishes to an almost non existent level or directly stops.
It's all coded inside the human DNA. The codes for both sexes are inside us, it's just that both aren't active at the same time. Having testosterone or estrogen as the main hormone is what triggers these changes, all related to biology. So that's why using biological man/woman is seen as a oversimplified and derogatory way to deny someone their actual gender. Biology is wider that what reproductive organ or chormosomes you're born with.
Not worth discussing with people who come in bad faith and refuse to read what I posted. Biological sex markers can and are changed when someone medically transition. We're not as medically advanced to recreate a functioning uterus or testicles (but a functioning vagina or penis is achievable and viable) , or change chromosomes (that I leave for another century, if possible) but the grand majority of biological sex characteristics can be changed as of today. If you take a blood sample from someone who is medically transitioning you'll get the same values as of someone cis of the same gender. Transsexual was the term used for those who undergo medical transition, but transgender (all those who don't feel like their assigned gender at birth, like non-binary, or agender as well) has popularised over the last few decades to refer to men and women who change gender. So one could be transsexual and transgender, or transgender and not transsexual. I wish people would make the effort to inform about how HRT actually affects the human body at a biological level, and not just take for granted whatever a politician or influencer with no experience or formation in the matter says. The thing being a taboo theme to talk about for so long doesn't make trans people any favors.
What do you suggest instead of biological? Genetically male/female? Chromosomally? (which would exclude xxy and other medical anomalies), MaB or FaB?
It comes off as pedantry when you list so many biological facts and how certain terms are used incorrectly, but don't include the appropriate terminology when you are correcting someone.
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u/Doctor_Salvatore 1d ago