Can human beings change sex?*

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Serious answers only please.
*With acknowledgement to Bowl, who has raised this so often. Apologies if this is repeating a thread from the past (?): in any case, maybe it's time for another thread with this title.

Please, no wordy arguments about how sex can be changed by legal instrument around the world, just answer the question posed.

Nope

I'm infertile. I am still a woman

No, of course not. You cannot become a member of the reproductive class opposite to the one you were born into. It’s impossible. I think people that believe you can have a very poor understanding of biology and the meaning of the word sex, and how it relates to sexual reproduction, and not merely to sexual stereotypes of outward appearance. The sex of the embryo is determined at the point of conception. Male and female foetuses may appear identical to the naked eye up until a certain stage of gestation, however they are not and every cell is either xx if female or xy if male.
Transgenderism is an ideology of the ignorant/wilfully ignorant (imo).

No, of course we can't.

No.
Sex is not something that can be changed with a surgeon’s knife, nor a form.
Gender Reassignment Surgery just attempts to reproduce a lookalikey body part. It doesn’t magically alter sex.

No

I also have a female friend that is xo.

No

Starzig what is xo?

I'm an infertile woman.

People can't change sex. Chromosomes remain the same, whatever surgery a person undergoes.

No.
It is impossible for humans to physically change from xx to xy or from xy to xx. Our chromosomes are fixed at conception in every cell of our body.

Of course it is possible with surgery and/or hormone treatment to change the outward appearance of our bodies, and to adopt the stereotypical appearance of the other sex. It is also possible in this country to get a Gender Recognition Certificate so that legally you are treated (in almost all circumstances) as the opposite sex.

But to physically change sex? No, not possible.

OP, why do you ask the question? And how is it relevant to FWR?

As you well know strictly speaking humans cannot change their chromosomes. But chromosomes are not particularly relevant to everyday life. You cannot tell someone's chromosomes just by looking at them. And most people have never had their chromosomes tested so do not what chromosomes they have.

However primary sex organs can be surgically modified. And this is known as a "sex change operation".

So in summary as an idiom of speech people can change sex, biologically their chromosomes remain the same, but who cares anyway what chromosomes someone has.

No

You can change the appearance of your body but you can't change the reality of it.

Abso-fucking-lutely NOT.

They can embrace the societal gender stereotypes of the opposite sex, and they can chop things off, or have things implanted and they can take hormones to mimic the opposite sex, but their biological sex cannot be changed.

If their remains were found thousands of years later they would be identified as the sex that they were born as.

This is true. And no doubt completely irrelevant to most trans people.

How their skeleton would be identified thousands of years later isn't something that has to be changed to significantly reduce the dysphoria caused by a gender identity that conflicts with their physical sex. A change that is enough to support them to become mentally healthier and better functioning people.

If you’re an infertile woman you’re of course still a woman, but you can’t become a man, can you? You can have a false penis made out of leg skin that you need to squeeze your false testicle in order to pump it up, but you’d be a woman with a false penis. You wouldn’t become able to produce sperm.

No

No

No, obviously

No.

No and anyone who says otherwise is just fibbing to be kind.

No, not biologically possible.

‘Most people have never had their chromosomes tested’
Most people on here don’t need to, because we’ve given birth. The fathers of our children don’t need to either, for obvious reasons. So disingenuous to suggest that loads of people are walking around with dsd and don’t know about it. Most become aware at puberty if they do.

every cell is either xx if female or xy if male

Not every individual has xx or xy cells. Some are xxy etc.

Transgenderism is an ideology of the ignorant/wilfully ignorant (imo)

Going with the dictionary definition of transgenderism as A state or condition in which a person's identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional ideas of male or female gender then transgenderism is not an ideology.

No