Changing your legal gender is not what makes someone trans. There are tons of trans folks that never change their legal gender for lots of different reasons, even if they’re theoretically able to. It’s just one of the steps that trans folks might take, and not typically an early step, but it’s by no means a binary that defines whether someone is trans or not.

I love how women “often” dying in childbirth is the ideal situation

Per the article ‘Four of the detained Americans have admitted they brought the ammunition — but by mistake.’