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>a trans woman doesn't "become" a woman, she's a woman whose body doesn't align with her gender expression. As a result trans women will often do things to feminize their body like taking feminizing hormones.
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>On a biological level, while you could say it's true that you can't become "female" just by taking hormones, first of all nobody is claiming that, second of all, it might be true but it's not true that you can't change your biological sex. Someone taking hormones for a long time would actually not be classified as male by any serious doctor or biologist, a more accurate description would be intersex since their body now present with both typically male and typically female characteristics. In a medical setting for exemple if you treat a trans woman like you'd treat a man you're going to mess up a lot because taking hormones is going to alter her biology enough that you need to look at some aspect like you'd look at a cis woman. For exemple breast cancer prevention and treatment would be essentially the same as for a cis woman.
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>So yeah, turns out calling a trans woman using hormones a man is factually innacurate and honestly if you have to choose one or the other, after a couple years of hormones "woman" is a more accurate descriptor than "man" (but again doesn't capture the whole complexity hence why it'd be more accurate to say the person is intersex).
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>But realistically these biological consideration don't matter unless you're someone's doctor, people never really use "man" or "woman" as a biological or medical category in everyday life, they mostly care about the gender aspect (realistically you never check someone hormone levels, chromosomes or genitals before deciding how to treat them, you just go off of vibes, therefore, gender), and so in that context trans women are indeed women and they don't have to "become" women.
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>Not trying to antagonize you by the way, just that you do seem a bit misinformed on what being a trans person actually entails, sex and gender are a lot more complicated that what you're told growing up so you should probably learn more about that before forming an opinion on the matter (but not bullying people is a good start, even if saying that makes me feel like the bar is in hell lol)