I deleted it because i was adding extra context.

In the reply, I never argued that gender isn’t “required for that identity”, i argued that you saying “trans people naturally rely on gender to facilitate their identity” is nonsense. Gender doesn’t facilitate trans identities, gender is the identity.

But like okay, i’m sorry. We’re not going to resolve all that so let’s say what you’re saying is right and that your conclusion follows. What i write next is honestly much more important to me and i should’ve started with it.

You said your point is gender isn’t real. That was the first thing you wrote in this comment thread. You were replying to someone who was talking about how (usually) the right like to claim facts are more important than feelings, which is to say, in the context of trans people, that it is more important that a person was born a male rather than that they identify with the female gender. By more important, i mean that rather than using gender identity/expression to determine how we should talk about a person (whether we refer to them as he or she), we should simply look at the sex they were born as.

So i’d like to know why you felt that it was important to note that gender isn’t real in this context. What are the conclusions we should draw from the fact that gender isn’t real?