LogFAQs > #914021096

Sylph posted...

Fam_Fam posted...

to get hormones/bodies like people of the opposite sex.

if gender is entirely social, why can't they be that gender happily with the sex parts they currently have?

I see you don't show much understanding of that which you ask. The transition isn't to change gender, and thusly is not limited to your ideal of a construct. The transition is to change the body to the gender that the trans person already identifies with, so the transition itself is a very physical event.

but gender is not physical, its social, so there is no male or female "body". if its purely social, then its not linked to the physical. if its physical, then its not entirely a social construct, but one that has social parts and a biological part as well (which makes sense to me, but people don't seem to think this is the case?)