Yes, I think you're right. I guess the point I am trying to stress, and perhaps you seem to be as well, is that if gender is some kind of sociocultural architecture, then on what basis could a person feel like the opposite sex without confirming that very blueprint? It's like some kind of cannibalistic revolution. You aren't revolutionizing the categories themselves, you're only asserting that a person can jump between them at will without any real philosophical justification for what these abstract categories are, in any way that really detaches them from biology. It's just senseless. Any legitimate revolution would have to explode the binary altogether, and we've seen examples of such attempts. As soon as one attempts this, they immediately discover that gender could not be an arbitrary construct. The innate need to be sexed according to the nature of your species is unavoidable, because the one thing these people cannot rid themselves of, regardless of whether they fancy themselves a fairy or a werewolf, is the desire to be sexually desired. It seems that sexuality is universally dimorphic, where it matters anyway - maybe we'd say sex is dimorphic *essentially*. You'll see terms like trimorphic applied to certain plants and animals, but they aren't essentially trimorphic. In plants, you just get different combinations of pistols and stamen of various sizes. Still, at the end of the day you have the gynoecium and androecium. In animals, trimorphism usually refers to sexual strategies and the different adaptations males demonstrate to sexual competition. What seems impossible is to ever naturally escape what we are *really* referring to by andro-, gyno-, and androgynous. There are two essences, and the in-between. Everything in-between can only be defined on the basis of the relative similarity of its parts to the two archetypes. Fine fellas, go ahead and chop your cocks off. I'd actually agree with you and say that these aren't what make you men. But you aren't escaping your essence, even without the dicks. Go ahead. Put the dress on. Act like a woman. You still can't escape that what you're ultimately confirming is a desire to be sexed, and to be desired by the sex that attracts you most. I think what we're seeing is a certain morbid kind of psychological maladaptation to homosexuality. For probably a multitude of reasons, the homosexual urge has some kind of interiorization as a need to reconcile the gender identity to fit the sexual orientation. The whole thing lays bare the absence of essentialism in today's worldview. We have to go back.