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hockeybub89 posted...

I was talking purely about wording here. Trans women are not biologically men. They are biologically trans women. That is how they are born. Obviously, chromosomes are factually a vital part in the composition of a human being, but every immutable aspect within our body is biological. There is an othering at play when you start throwing around words like "biological" and "normal" to define groups of people. It belittles and dehumanizes out-groups. It tells them their physical and mental experiences are wrong and/or illegitimate.

No one would like it if a stranger walked up to a friend or family member and called them abnormal or non-biological due to some condition, so they should pay it forward and extend that courtesy to others.

You can't say gender is a social construct and then say it is biological. Going by modern definitions, the term "woman" is a societal construct, not a biological one. That womanhood is independent of sex and biology. Therefore there is no such thing as a biological trans woman.

We should always be compassionate towards all humans, but terms like "biological" are important especially in topics like these where biology matters.