OK, I'm just going to say it.

[pantryslut]

Just for the record, I wasn't born a woman (or a womon, or a...). I was
merely born with female morphology, thx.

Comments

[gramina.livejournal.com]

Amen.

[redbird]

A good point.

It may in some sense be true that I was born a girl, if we could define that, but not an adult of any sort.

Then again, my quick summary of the year you and I spent as Tiptree jurors is that I am now much more richly confused about gender than when I started.

[black-pearl-10.livejournal.com]

female morphological biological issue?

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I don't think I was born a girl. I was definitely raised one, though.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Won't that look cute on the birth announcements? ;)

P.S. we'll also probably be able to make a definitive statement about the genetic profile.

[(Anonymous)]

morphologically-female biological issue with a significant statistical chance of eventually self-identifying as a "girl". ;)

[redbird]

That one seems more valid to me, as well.

I can see room for definitions that are more phenotypical than behavioral, which is what I was pointing at, but nobody is born a woman or man, in the same way that nobody is born an English-speaker or a piano-player.