The problem is the cluster thing of gender that my brain seems to operate by isn't easily defined by one criteria. I have successfully viewed people female before when they have male genitalia, given the rest of them adheres closely to the cluster of feminine traits.
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And for trans people who successfully pass, even if I learn they're trans or any other 'facts' about them that might contradict their appearance, my brain still considers them the gender they're passing as.
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Yeah, I agree that the way my brain processes gender is not like... forgiving. Most trans people don't have the ability to pass, espec. if they transitioned late or don't have money. I agree it can be extraordinarily painful to not look like the thing you want to.
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I acknowledge that my instinctive processing of trans people as their birth gender is probably really painful to them. I feel empathy for this and if I could press a button to change my brain to process them as the gender they want, then I would do that.
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I’m pretty surprised to hear you say you’d change it if you could! I think you could probably change a lot if you tried, even though you seem confident that you couldn’t.
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I sort of trust my introspection on this one, unless the change I'd have to make is categorically different than any change id made before
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> "unless the change I'd have to make is categorically different than any change id made before"
I would guesstimate most people latently have a good 5-15 of these
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even people who've made a handful of radical "found an entirely new dimension of change" changes already
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Yeah it's possible this will happen but I'm assuming it'll happen the way other categorically new changes happened, which is like a ton of bricks
I don’t claim to understand your reasons for talking about gender stuff on the internet (though of course I have guesses based on what you’ve said!)
But it stands out to me that the “I would change it if I could” point is buried here instead of something you said earlier.
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