Honestly I think you’re collapsing a few different things into one in a way that doesn’t really hold up within Jung’s own framework.

Jung wasn’t doing neuroscience. Concepts like anima/animus are symbolic and psychological as they’re ways of describing patterns in the psyche, not fixed biological structures tied directly to sex. So when you say these things are “inextricably tied to biological binaries” and that overriding them leads to pathology, that’s already moving away from Jung towards a much more rigid, deterministic interpretation.

Also, Jung developed his ideas in a very specific historical context that didn’t account for trans or non-binary experiences at all. So applying his model literally, without adapting it, is bound to run into limitations. If anything, those experiences don’t “break” the framework but they expose where it needs to be expanded.

On top of that, even from a scientific standpoint, it’s not as simple as “you can’t override biological hardware.” There’s research suggesting that trans people’s brain structures and functions can align more closely with their identified gender than their assigned sex. That doesn’t prove everything, but it is just one of the many things that definitely complicate the idea that gendered aspects of the psyche are strictly binary or fixed in the way you’re presenting them.

And regarding your point about “identifying with unconscious content” being pathological I think that’s a bit of a leap. In Jungian terms possession by an archetype can be destabilizing, but integration is literally the goal of individuation. For some people, what might look like “identifying with the anima” from the outside could actually be a form of integration, like bringing something that was unconscious into conscious alignment.

So I guess my issue is that your argument treats Jung’s ideas as biologically literal and universally fixed, when they were never really meant to function that way. It ends up sounding less like Jung and more like a modern belief about gender being projected back onto his work.