Not especially important to your main points, but for the sake of pedantry:
While it’s true that transwomen are biologically distinct from ciswomen, medically-transitioning transwomen are also biologically distinct from cismen. In particular, most of them (and all of the post-op) can’t make babies with anyone. So, from a purely reproductive perspective, those transwomen are in a group onto itself. From a sexual-attraction perspective, this group is somewhat more similar to ciswomen than to cismen, in the sense that a much bigger fraction of straight men would be attracted to a (medically-transitioning in advance stage) transwoman than the fraction of straight women attracted to that transwoman (even if it the fraction of straight men attracted to a same-percentile-of-attractiveness ciswoman would be larger still).
In particular, most of them (and all of the post-op) can’t make babies with anyone.
I think sterilizing yourself when sperm storage is as easy as it is is in general a bad idea because sometimes people want kids later. I’ve tried encouraging this among more people getting sterilized. It shocks me that this isn’t standard protocol.
Not especially important to your main points, but for the sake of pedantry:
While it’s true that transwomen are biologically distinct from ciswomen, medically-transitioning transwomen are also biologically distinct from cismen. In particular, most of them (and all of the post-op) can’t make babies with anyone. So, from a purely reproductive perspective, those transwomen are in a group onto itself. From a sexual-attraction perspective, this group is somewhat more similar to ciswomen than to cismen, in the sense that a much bigger fraction of straight men would be attracted to a (medically-transitioning in advance stage) transwoman than the fraction of straight women attracted to that transwoman (even if it the fraction of straight men attracted to a same-percentile-of-attractiveness ciswoman would be larger still).
That’s an interesting point. Thank you, I hadn’t thought about it before. I’m not sure what it implies but it’s nice to have noticed.
I think sterilizing yourself when sperm storage is as easy as it is is in general a bad idea because sometimes people want kids later. I’ve tried encouraging this among more people getting sterilized. It shocks me that this isn’t standard protocol.