If you randomly assign people one of two "genders" 50% will want to swap. If you expand the set of genders (or individuals are allowed to grow and change over a long enough time span) the percentage goes to 100%. The "trans virus" is just an inherent consequence of agency.
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"But minds aren't randomly categorized by society into arbitrary bundles of associations, the conceptual schemas taught in 20th century western elementary schools are sacrosanct immortal truths because a magical chromosome fairy told me." --Rod Dreher, probably
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If you dissociate gender from physicality to the point that even the statement "physical preference should determine physical form" somehow becomes interpreted as reactionary, then a person can change their gender a thousand times before breakfast.
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Which isn't to say that's bad; dress however you want, act however you want; but transition regret is probably directly proportional to the degree you dissociate physical dysphoria from attempts to achieve a specific physical form.
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The optimal amount of transition regret isn't 0. Making transition (and by extension, detransition) easier will benefit all.
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Empirical. I suppose we'll probably (unfortunately) get an answer to whether it is or isn't over time.
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