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 Originally Posted by oskar
You identify the gender of a person by the way they dress and behave. You wouldn't think for a second: I hope I'm using the biologically correct pronoun here. You'd use the one that's overtly obvious...
You seem confused as to why this is incorrect. Savy spells it out in a pretty straightforward way here:
 Originally Posted by Savy
Lots of people dress up as the opposite sex and still identify as the sex they were born with.
Unless you want to start telling people they don't have the right to identify with the gender they want, you have to accept this.
For a personal anecdote, I have a young friend who identifies as a man, who has a penis and who presents as a woman. He also has ass like a motherfucker and is super pretty to the point that it's almost weird how pretty he is. Do with that information what you will.
 Originally Posted by oskar
Would you address a transgender person with the pronoun associated with their biological sex?
As an aside, there are a number of transgender people who prefer to be called the pronouns associated with their sex instead of their gender.
I think that a lot of your confusion comes down to having an idea in your head of what you've been told transgender people want without actually having substantial experience with the LGBTQ+ community that would allow you to connect with people as individuals and see that they don't all fall into this cookie cutter mold that you've devised.
And I want to make it clear to you that as a member of the LGBTQ+ community that I do not blame you for that whatsoever. It's a mistake that a ton of people make because they feel like they want to be good people, and they get this idea of what being a good person means, but they're tragically mistaken because they try to fit everyone into a box and apply a set of behaviors to the box instead of learning about people as individuals instead of their labels.
The discussion of whether there are more than two genders is much more interesting to me on a personal level because I identify as gender-nonconforming.
Edit: Fixed a bracket.
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