maynoth wrote: Looking at before and after photos of surgery, compared to the real deal it should be plenty obvious for just about anyone.
Sure on the outside it may be nearly impossible to tell if they have had they Adams apple surgically removed or the base of the skull ground down, but it should be pretty obvious in the bedroom.
Maynoth, most before and after surgery photos are taken within 1 week to six months of surgery and haven't had a proper chance to heal. Most gynecologists can't even tell once the healing has finished. If you are certian you can always tell you may have limited sample skewing your perspective.
Also, all the traits that you described as being "only in men" occur in cisgender women as well, not as commonly, certainly, but they do occur. Also the opposite is true, plenty of people born male don't have these traits.
I'm transgender myself and I lack both the adams apple and the knob you speak of and I didn't begin hormone therapy until I was 24 and I haven't had any surgeries yet. There is no "male and female" as some sort of binary toggle in any species. Its always a spectrum from one extreme to the other. In our culture we've defined them in a binary sense, taking both extremes and treating them as the only options but the majority of people fall somewhere in the middle, generally leaning more toward one side or the other excepting in the case of intersex disorders where the individual is closer to the middle. As far as genetics go, the body is not defined by whether you have xx or xy in your main genetic code but by your karyotype. There are cisgender women with xy choromosomes because when their body was forming in the womb, only the X chromosome passed to the karyotic cells even though they have a Y chromosome.
Oh and since I scrolled through the thread I'll mention that I'm lesbian both sexually and romantically.
