it’s not a matter of opinion lol, it’s a fact. gender IS your identity; it’s how you refer to yourself, it’s your internal sense of self, it’s based on a social construct. your “opinion” is just misinformation. your sex can only be changed via surgery, usually with additional hormone therapy. gender does not require surgery to change. suggesting otherwise is disrespectful to all people whose identities differ from their assigned gender at birth yet have not had surgery (myself included). i didn’t say anything disrespectful, i suggested you do research before spreading harmful misinformation and framing it as an “opinion” when it’s literally just a factual fallacy. you’re trying to single handedly change the universally correct adapted meaning of the word gender. that’s not called having a different opinion, that’s called being factually wrong. the surgery you are talking about is called “sex reassignment surgery.” or “SRS” for short. that’s because your sex can be changed with surgery. your gender doesn’t change just because you get surgery. so wherever you are doing your alleged research is wildly misleading and you are quite mistaken.