The terms male and female are about biology and even that contains anomalies with regards to intersex conditions. However "man" and "woman" contain social connotations within them regarding roles. In other words, they are weighted down with expectation and if someone wants to take them on then more power to them.
The argumentation that transitioners are facsimiles relies on biology which has little to do with social roles. After all, who is going to inspect genitalia? here conservatives love to rely on arguments that at their core are monumentally stupid because hate blinds their ability to be logical. Plus someone with the conviction to carry out a well planned and thought out medical transition isn't pretending. If they are of right mind they are dead serious.
I would ask gender variant people of all stripes what their willingness would be to permanently take on all connotations of manhood or womanhood in opposition to their birth sex even as we know the social norms around them keep changing.
How invested are you in birth sex with both its societal privileges and disadvantages?
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