Sex and gender are inextricably linked.

I certainly didn't say it very clearly, that's for sure. Occupational hazard of casual message board posting.

What I should have said, if I were more precise, is that trans identity is based on the premise that your internal sense of gender isn't determined by your chromosomes. That doesn't mean there's no "link" between trans identity and your biological sex (defined either morphologically or by chromosomes) - because by definition, to be "trans" means your internal sense of gender doesn't match your biological attributes. Just like whether you're gay or not depends entirely on your gender and the gender of the person you're attracted to - we define "gay" as a situation where one's own gender matches the gender that you have attraction for. Being trans is defined as when your mental construct of your gender is different from the one that 'matches' your chromosomes or the structure of your body. But the existence of transgendered individuals demonstrates that one's internal model of gender isn't inextricably determined by their chromosomes.

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