re: Transgender teen who was beaten by bullies now dreams of becoming a model

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See, this is dumb.

"Looks like a chick".

You know, except for the mutilated genitals and the balls and the Adam's apple and the big hands and feet.

And the bone structure.

Look, if I slap nascar fenders and wheels on a Prius, it might LOOK like a race car...


But it's what is under the hood that counts.

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If the trans person starts hormone therapy during adolescence, the bone structure will usually closely match the self-identified gender, so you can't always use that to tell the difference.

Actually sexual reassignment surgery is so good these days that it's hard to tell by looking downstairs if it's a male-to-female transition and the transwoman got a good surgery. Not all of trans people change their genitals.