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Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust
My point is this. Say for example you are a woman who wants to be a man. All you've ever experienced is being a woman, so what makes you be a man? They say you don't miss what you've never experienced. So to say ''oh I am trapped in the wrong body'' is utter bull**** because all you've never experienced life in the other body.
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No, it's not BS. Biological sex and gender are two different things. You can be (for example) biologically female, but not identify with the female gender, i.e. you feel you'd have a better life as a man, a more fulfilling life let's say, because although you're biologically female, you don't personally identify as one. You don't have to have belonged to the other gender to know what you identify with and what you don't identify with. You also don't need to have experienced something to know what you're missing, especially in this case - you're female, but you get a sense of what it's like to be a man because of all the males around you - it's obvious when it's right in front of you.