Let us realize what gender is. Your biological survival may depend on it.
Gender is not a matter of opinion or interpretation. Biology is not interested in philosophical or social tools. Let alone be able to be remodeled with such. Whether you like it or not, you're male, female, or in the very extreme and rare case – a person with a chromosomal disease. There is no other option. The latter are dealt with by genetics and medicine and again are not in the field of philosophy.
The question of our gender is beyond us. That is, gender does not care what we think about it. Even if we completely deny it, it continues to exist and be a fact. It is the same with the charge of the electron. Regardless of our preferences, it is what it is. This is neither negotiable nor can it be changed by changing the passport according to your wishes.
The very idea of gender reassignment is inherently wrong. It is wrong by definition. The fact that the phrase “change of sex“ circulated without thought makes it popular, but also completely false. Sex reassignment clinics are clinics for voluntary and medically assisted reproduction. Here we are mostly talking about physically fit individuals who have been influenced and convinced to the point of wishing their own fate on eunuchs. Yes! Coping is a matter of personal choice and is really best done in a medically supervised environment. But here the question does not even touch on changing the gender.
No scientist, institute, surgeon anywhere in the world has ever succeeded in changing the sex of any living being. (On a dead one too). Actual sex change is a fundamental rearrangement of an organism at the subcellular level. An unattainable level in science at this stage. This is not possible with silicone fillers! The surgeries that are presented to us as sex reassignment are voluntary disabilities. Yes, there are advanced medical techniques to simulate penises, vaginas, etc., but that's about it. Copying operations and subsequent plastics cannot make a man a woman or vice versa, and every doctor knows that. Even those who don't admit it know it. At the level of a nightclub and five vodkas, the results can mimic such a process, but the moment the lights are turned on, everything disappears.
Liberals, in their attempts to find a philosophical basis for what a woman or a man is, look for it in sick men and women who cannot have offspring. In addition to being profoundly immoral, it is also false because we are talking about people who have a health problem (largely correctable) and comparing them to people who have an unrealistic self-image. Of course, people with such unrealistic ideas need help, but the tools for this are in the hands of psychiatrists.
It would be much more correct to say that there is an industry not for changing sex, but for replacing and facilitating preferences in sex. But, you see, that doesn't sound good. That is why there is this liberal clamor that people should not be restricted in their freedom to choose their gender. In fact, they never even came close to being able to make such a choice. It's a matter of awareness.
As for what is subject to our decisions, remember that we can decide whether to cut off our genitalia, to transplant testicles, breasts, eyelashes. We can even decide to die, but even then we will be a dead man or a dead woman, adorned with various silicone extensions - strange and puzzling to archaeologists ten thousand years from now.
And as for gender – it will be the same one given to us by definition. DNA RULES!