>>40448968
mmmm...
assuming that the speaker is not lying, and assuming we agree that sex and gender are different things (which we can also discuss), i think, possibly transphobically, that it sort of depends on the perception of that speaker's audience, unfortunately. which is to say that as much as i, on a personal and dogmatic level wholeheartedly and truthfully believe that anyone who honestly claims to be a man is a man, full stop..."man" is a role people play in society. usually they're the ones born with testicles and whatnot. but they're also a collection of myriad traits and behaviors, which the rest of society sees and says, "okay, this individual is a man." anyone who plays that role is a man. this probably makes some femboys socially women, despite the fact that they are, in my own view, men who claim to be men. men can get pregnant because there are people who play the role of "man", people who are of the gender "man", who can become pregnant, but, in a roundabout way, i'm not sure i *can* provide you with any solid argument as to why you should think of every single person who *claims* to be a man as a man, if you (not you, specifically) are a transphobe. i can, however provide an argument that manhood is arbitrary, and that it is possible that, in time, society will come to see that anyone who does honestly claim to be a man is one.
i'm sorry i couldn't give you what you wanted.....but i would earnestly love to hear someone else tell me why i am wrong lol. i kinda feel like an asshole, thinking this way, but it feels rigid and objective, based on the premises that sex and gender are different and that gender is a social construct, both of which things i believe.
some anon please come poke some holes in this for me