So, I promised a follow-up to this post . Indeed, I’ve been promising it to a few of you for quite awhile. So, in my previous post, I made the argument that the discursive, legal categories of “male” and “female” can have real social effects for transitioning people whose documentation doesn’t match their gender presentation. In essence, sex is a bio-political category, one that takes biological features and gives them a presence in the world, and this inevitably has political consequences.