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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7437055" data-attributes="member: 6779196">I'll see your &quot;being able to change sex doesn't make them transgender&quot; and raise you &quot;nor does it stop them from being transgender.&quot;The idea that being transgender means your gender &quot;doesn't match&quot; the sex you were &quot;born with&quot; is a very cisnormative way of framing it. Sex and gender are different spectra (just as sexuality is different from either), so no gender inherently &quot;matches&quot; or &quot;doesn't match&quot; any given set of sex characteristics. The associations between them are culturally constructed, so a better way of framing it would be to say that being transgender is about identifying with a gender that is different from the one you were assigned at birth.In real life human culture, we are typically assigned genders based on sex characteristics, but in a culture where some members are born with the ability to change sex characteristics simply by meditating for a few hours, perhaps there would be different criteria. They may have more and/or different culturally-defined genders than humans have, or they may not have a concept of gender at all. And in any of those cases, an elf with or without Corellon's blessing may or may not identify with the gender they were assigned by their parents or the lack thereof.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 7437055, member: 6779196"] I'll see your "being able to change sex doesn't make them transgender" and raise you "nor does it stop them from being transgender." The idea that being transgender means your gender "doesn't match" the sex you were "born with" is a very cisnormative way of framing it. Sex and gender are different spectra (just as sexuality is different from either), so no gender inherently "matches" or "doesn't match" any given set of sex characteristics. The associations between them are culturally constructed, so a better way of framing it would be to say that being transgender is about identifying with a gender that is different from the one you were assigned at birth. In real life human culture, we are typically assigned genders based on sex characteristics, but in a culture where some members are born with the ability to change sex characteristics simply by meditating for a few hours, perhaps there would be different criteria. They may have more and/or different culturally-defined genders than humans have, or they may not have a concept of gender at all. And in any of those cases, an elf with or without Corellon's blessing may or may not identify with the gender they were assigned by their parents or the lack thereof. [/QUOTE]

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