Should all female heterosexual and gay porn fail to arose, since, of course, all males were female at one point in time before the andronization process?
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Originally Posted by liveordie83
Putting an orange peel on the apple doesn't make the apple an orange. The apple will always be what it is on the inside no matter what!
You look at the orange peel and call it an orange without batting an eye. Now what if that apple has the chance to shed this false skin? Are you seriously going to argue that it's an orange?
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That analogy, however, falls on the assumption that gender and sex are analogous constructs, and gender is an objective, dictohomous concept rather than a somewhat subjective, continuous concept. What is and what is an immediately observable phenotype is different than what once was and what is not empirically observable. I'm not saying that transgendered people should hide their past from someone with whom they start a relationship. That is a major part of their history and major parts of one's history should be shared with loved ones. However, the concept of what someone is in the present tense is not always necessarily defined by what they once were.