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Your argument that "In identifying as trans boys are resisting this definition of masculinity" (that is, masculinity being defined by "not being too feminine, and especially not having sex with other males") is surely dependent on the further proposition that in identifying as trans they are not rejecting a masculine identity. Otherwise, they are actually affirming that if you are "too feminine" then you can't be masculine. (And indeed aren't masculine and feminine binaries in the sense that the more you are one the less you are the other?) And you recognise this yourself when you say "When these boys identify as trans that does not necessarily mean identifying as female." But I must admit that this confuses me, since I always thought that being trans meant having a gender identity which does not align with one's biological sex or the gender one was assigned at birth; so that a boy who identifies as trans is a boy who does indeed identify as female. Are you not confusing trans with gender non-conformity? Could you clarify what exactly you mean by a trans person? ![]() |