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I never said HRT was "sex change" though I would argue it potentially changes your sex, based on some definition of sex.
I did in another comment refer to a sex change surgery, which may be what you're referring to. Yeah, that has other names, but the point of that comment was the language is something we're working backwards to, and not something we should work forward from, unlike what you implied with your comment that was on. Whatever it's called, that's not an argument for what effect it has. We change the names of things as we evolve our understanding. We don't understand based on what things are called.
I know the difference between sex and gender. My point has been consistently that sex is hazy. It is not a binary, and calling someone "biologically male" who does not want to be called that is a snobby way to be an asshole, particularly because "biologically male" doesn't mean much, if anything. Assigned gender at birth is clear and there are no questions, so use that. If they're undergoing HRT and/or gender reassignment surgery, their biology is no longer that of their birth, so they are not "biologically male." Do you agree with this, or are you going to continue arguing that you were totally right the whole time? If you think you were right, which part of biology is the sex identifier? You haven't answered that.
The sum of them does not make a binary definition of sex, nor does it make an unchanging one, as I've said before. If you want an unchanging binary definition you need to define what that would refer to.
I agree, gender is not sex. However, sex is not just something you're born with, as we've clearly seen with intersex characteristics and also being able to change the body with HRT.
I know the difference between primary and secondary sex characteristics. I have said nothing that should indicate otherwise. You're just trying to be the "well actually..." person. Obviously primary sex characteristics are not the definition of sex. If they were then ~~men~~ males who have their testicals removed wouldn't be ~~men~~ males and ~~women~~ females who have their overies removed wouldn't be ~~women~~ females. You agree that's wrong, correct? (I know, asking these questions is pointless because you just ignore them, but hopefully they make you think.)
Sex is many things, which includes things effected by HRT and surgery. Saying "biological sex" to refer to sex assigned at birth is dismissive of this, right? (Not to mention it's totally wrong if we agree sex many characteristics.) If so, we should avoid the term, correct? It's not the same as gender assigned at birth, right?
Edit: men => males, women => females, because I could forsee the "technically..." coming.
It's not artificial. The hormones aren't native to the person, but it's not changing their body by replacing components with mechanical things. Your body has different amounts of testosterone and estrogen as is. It's just changing those amounts artificially, but the changing the body makes following that are natural biological processes.
In your analogy though, how would giving you the function go a credit card not make you a credit card? If the effect is identical, then how are you not that thing? Sure, you'd also be other things, but that doesn't exclude being another. If you have the outcome of being able to purchase things using your credit account, you are in effect a credit card. If you have the outcome of male attributes, you are in effect a male.
Again, you're arguing for some strict binary "biological" definition of sex. The primary sex characteristics, that you seem so fond of, can be removed. If this is your requirement, what happens when these are removed? You dodged this and are implying an unchanging definition now, so primary sex characteristics are not the requirement? If not, what is and what effect does HRT play on it now?