The right to mis-define oneself

[bennyboy]

So if you are a woman, and you are with a man who expects to have sex with a woman, why would you need to disclose your penis?  Because it's the defining trait of manhood.

What? Did you even read this? Have you paid attention to anything anyone has said about gender and sex? Why do you keep clinging to this infantile bullshit? It is immediately obvious that you are only reading one or two lines of these posts.

A transgender woman is VERY AWARE THAT THEY HAVE A PENIS. Why do you think just because they are a woman that they aren't aware of or are predisposed to hide their male sex? Are you just entrenched here, and don't want to admit you're wrong?

Seems like Thump is right. I thought you were better than this childish tripe.

That's a lot of social rage and insults from a person who hasn't answered the question. If a woman is biologically female, she doesn't have to disclose, but if a transgender woman has a penis, she should disclose that fact before sex, right? That's because they aren't the same thing.

And I have read all the lines of all the posts. I've already acknowledged (right up front) brain differences, hormonal differences, developmental differences in the womb, etc. I've already acknowledged that transgender people should be treated with respect, including use of pronouns. But the idea that a woman is worried about people seeing her penis is because she doesn't want people to know that she's at least partly a man in biological terms. She is not equivalent to a natural-born woman.

I'm fine with treating people humanely. I'm not fine with ignoring reality.