I'll ask a question I've asked before. What about people born as Hermaphrodites, this alone says that things are not always as simple as male or female.
Hermaphroditism is a rare genetic anomaly. Just because anomalies exist doesn´t mean gender is fluid. The chances of being born a hermaphrodite are 1 in 83,000. Now if hermaphrodites occurred as frequently as males and females, then yeah you could make a case for having more than two genders.
That said, calling hermaphroditism a separate gender would be like saying albinos are their own race.
https://isna.org/faq/frequency/
Total number of people whose bodies differ from standard male or female one in 100 births
Total number of people receiving surgery to “normalize” genital appearance one or two in 1,000 births
Hermaphrodites are not those who need to have their genital appearance "normalized". Hermaphrodites are those who are born with both ovaries and testes.
The main difference between hermaphrodite and intersex is that hermaphrodite is an organism possessing both types of gonads whereas intersex is an organism possessing several sex characteristics of both male and females such as chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones or genitals. Though the two terms, hermaphrodite and intersex are used synonymously in the last century, intersex is nowadays preferred over hermaphrodite.
Also, if you had read the articles you would have seen all the different types of intersex individuals there are as well as the frequency. There are more intersex individuals than there are trans individuals statistically, so when you say it's like that of albinism, those numbers are skewed.
Total number of people whose bodies differ from standard male or female one in 100 births
if it happens that frequently, maybe it isn't a sin to be different.
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"Would you date someone who chooses to be a woman, ie has had his penis removed or still has his genitalia in tact but identifies as a woman?"
Date? In the sense of that it could/would lead to physical sex?
No. I'm hetero-exclusive. Reasoning: I was born this way. In fact, I would describe my younger self as over-sexed in that regard.
I don't have issues with trans-individuals in a social context, or within my circle of friends. I've known a few, shared hugs... that sort of thing. Beyond that I actively don't dwell on the physical or sexual aspects of their lives. I don't even wanna picture my straight friends having sex.
Where it might be fuzzy, I guess, is if I discovered after the fact that the person I was dating and hooking up with was born a male. (I'm an older white male). I honestly can't say how I would react in that scenario.