4 Years of Service
This is not really the right place to have this discussion, and it's very unlikely that you will change his mind about this topic. Not something I am proud of, but I used to have the same opinion as him and I only started changing my opinion when I met and became friends with trans people IRL and understood them a little better.I mean, would you call a person born a woman who's now covered in hair with a full beard, chiseled muscles, no tits, and a phallus, still a woman? Or would you be calling them a guy?
I stated earlier here, and on other similar threads, that it is a biologically proven fact that the brains of trans people are physically closer to the sex they identify as rather than the one they were born looking like, and we know vanishing twin syndrome and chimera syndrome exist and can result in a person with organs belonging to the opposite sex, and nothing would stop that from being a brain is one of the organs that ends up having the opposite sex. Which, we are first and foremost our brains, anything can be done to your body and you're still you, but something happens to your brain and you can have a complete personality shift or die.
So, as far as I'm concerned, trans people are the gender they identify as, full stop. The medical and biological evidence points to that being true, and suggests that they suffer a horrible birth defect of having the opposite sexed body. When people state things like "trans women are guys with fake tits," you're making a statement not based on biology or medicine, at best it's an uninformed opinion, at worst it's a political statement and you shouldn't be doing that here.
PS: trans women very often have real, naturally grown tits. Sometimes their tits are bigger than non-trans women. HRT is a pretty impressive thing.
Debating these things online seems to have the opposite effect.