Key point on this topic. There are two (count them) and only two sexes throughout the animal kingdom. You can’t actually choose which of these you are because the determination is made at the time of conception. You can be a male or you can be a female and the choice is outside the realm of your control. Which you are is rather simple to determine. If you have female reproductive organs you are a female and if you have male reproductive organs you are a male. While you can neuter yourself, you can never cause your body to fulfill the role of the opposite gender no matter what you do. A male will never get pregnant and a female will never produce sperm.
I will remove this topic from the confines of the human animal and broaden it to include all levels of animal husbandry. Perhaps it will remove the emotionally defunct approach to the topic and cause the confused to consider the reality of life. Let’s approach it from the aspect of the farmer. Now sometimes a dairy cow will mount other cows. Not to worry. She won’t get any of the other cows pregnant. You see it is physically impossible for a cow to impregnate another cow. Only a bull can do that. This fact seems to have gotten lost in the current confusion about the genders. But let’s suppose we have a ‘woke’ sensitive farmer who watches what’s going on in the pasture with this cow mounting another cow, and similar to today’s socially confused thinks “I betcha she’s a bull.” Not wanting to cause the poor dear any emotional problems in her later years, he searches high and low for a veterinary who is willing to surgically remove the poor cow’s udder so she can pretend to be a bull better. Now he will have to search high and low because it’s difficult to find a vet stupid enough to ruin a perfectly good cow on a whim. They are smarter than some physicians that way. But let’s say this Midwest farmer (You can tell he’s from the Midwest as the “betcha” gives him away. ”Betcha” is Midwest talk for “bet you”) and he actually finds some veterinary willing to charge him for some pointless surgery and removes the poor cows udder. She now becomes udderly useless. Well, not totally if he leaves her female reproductive organs intact. She could still get pregnant. You can imagine the poor farmer’s confusion when his new found bull gets pregnant. And being udderly useless, she has no way to feed her offspring so the farmer is stuck doing that task by hand. The point of this whole story is very important if you intend to become a farmer. If you get confused about genders in the running of a dairy farm, you are likely to find yourself going broke. You see none of the new bulls you created will ever actually get any of the cows pregnant and none of the bulls turned steers will ever give birth to a calf. All one can actually do about their gender is to remove the parts they have which define their gender and make themselves reproductively useless. Never will they be able to actually become another gender. A male is a male and a female is a female. You can neuter yourself but that has little effect on changing your gender. It simply makes you reproductively useless.
Now there are some educators who think gender training is important for a five-year-old. I think it is rather a bit further down their interest timeline, but feel free to use this simple analogy in your schooling of young children if you actually are convinced the topic should be broached that early. You at least will then be teaching the reality of life. I grew up on a farm and at five years old, knew instantly what gender a newborn calf was. And we never once tried to make a cow into a bull. You see, we believed you should live life the way it is and never try to replace that with the way you wish it was.
This is a very interesting analogy! I never thought of it that way! And I will be using this point if the subject of debate comes up.