imo trans acceptance is gaining a foothold cause there's no longer enough very meaningful differences between the lives of men and women; the bridge between the two *can* be jumped, and so people have started jumping it.
I predict a similar thing will start happening with race
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to clarify, I think this is good; I like being sufficiently post-scarcity that differences we evolved for survival reasons are no longer relevant! In the glorious transhumanist future where the rules of the game have changed, I hope we do every kind of expression.
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It feels like this proposition makes sense if you take transgender to be a cultural phenom. but there is likely a biological correlate of being trans (significant concordance for gender identity among identical twins, not among fraternal ones). there isn't for 'transracialism'.
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My guess is that transgenderism is partially a cultural phenomenon (which doesn't make it any less valid!), and also that there is some sort of "not a choice, an unexplained urge, best explained through alternate brain wiring" that exists for transracialism
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But pregnancy, childbirth, breast feeding, menstruation, breast cancer, prostate cancer, menopause, the role of testosterone in male physical strength, higher instances of male violent and sexual crime, male sexual compulsion vs. female sexual compulsion, toxic masculinity.
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Hasn't this been happening with race for decades BEFORE the trans stuff? Today we view Italians and Jews as white when that was not the case 50 years ago.
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I feel that my penis-having non-menstruating masculine-social-roled life is a lot lot closer to the vast majority of men of any race than to the average woman of my exact ethnicity
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Q: Should transitionary candidates for surgery be fully informed that no amount of surgical skill nor technology yet exists that can transform one set of genitalia into another?
