> The result is that yes, there are a fair number of men with vaginas and women with penises.
Let's describe it as what it actually is though: women with vaginas presenting as men, and men with penises presenting as women. This doesn't really make them, respectively, men and women.
This is the problem with simplistic slogans like "transwomen are women" - it shortcuts analysis in favour of an ideology.
If instead we start from the biological reality, which is "transwomen are men presenting as women", and take it from there, a much more reasonable conversation can be had about where these trans-identifying men should be politely regarded as women, and where they should not.
One problem is that in some countries (such as the UK), you can legally change your birth certificate to have it record your supposed 'gender identity' in the sex field instead. Your actual sex is erased.
It just means that the body scanner is programmed to recognize biological realities (that transwomen are men presenting as women, and transmen are women presenting as men), rather than questionable self-beliefs.
Reminds me of that AI model for sex classification that would - quite accurately - recognize trans people as their birth sex rather than their 'gender identity'.
People were complaining that it was transphobic or whatever, but it was just saying what it saw. Like what most of us see, even if we politely acquiesce to the fantasy.
Let's describe it as what it actually is though: women with vaginas presenting as men, and men with penises presenting as women. This doesn't really make them, respectively, men and women.