>>19819851If you're walking down the street and you see someone that looks like a man, you're going to assume it's a man regardless of what genitals this person has. if you present as a man, people will treat you as such - you will most likely be left alone and you will be less likely to be catcalled. scientifically, people have no way of knowing if that a person presenting as a man is biologically male unless they examine their genitals and their karyotype. this never happens in 99% of all social interactions so your assumption that this person is a man is based on a social construct that biological males look and act a certain way. if an ftm takes testosterone, grows a beard, gets a short haircut, gets a mastectomy, and acts like a stereotypical man, they will be treated as a man in most social situations. this is why gender is a social construct that's separate from sex. picrel is a trans man. do people treat him like a woman irl? no. therefore him believing he is a man is a social reality
