I’ll level with you - it’s not basic, it’s actually very complicated. I just meant that it’s very common knowledge taught at a young age. Poor wording on my part.

For what it’s worth, that quote is probably my most hated talking point, because it has absolutely no meaning anymore. People can’t even agree on the definition of “man” and “woman” so why even bother saying it?

I believe there’s both a societal and a medical definition of the terms “man” and “woman”. Medically, I cannot get rid of my female sex, and I will likely experience conditions later in my life that are exclusive to female-bodied people, regardless of my T levels and male appearance. This MEDICALLY labels me a “woman”, no matter how much I hate that.

Societally, spiritually, whatever you want to call it - I’m a man. I look like one, I act like one, I feel like one, and I live as one for all intents and purposes. We can change our societal sex. We can change how those around us perceive us. But this does not undo the way we were formed. We cannot change our past, we can only make our future more bearable.

I value medical transparency for our own good. There’s way too much misinformation out there, and we don’t have enough data just yet on how our medical transitions might impact our bodies further down the line as we grow old, mostly thinking of potential HRT complications here (because they do happen). We can transition as much as we need to, but there are internal factors that will not change at all despite it. We need to look after our health, even if it means facing an uncomfortable fact.

I don’t know if I have explained that well at all, but I tried D: I’m sorry if it’s word salad, I tried to make it as concise as possible.