Hungary's absolutist enforcement of the sex binary. It's not even scientifically valid, and it's morally reprehensible. As a related aside, when I visited Hungary for TedX, I asked the head of protocol at the University what Hungary's main industry was. His answer? Corruption.
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Replying to @DanielleFong
Scientifically valid? What does that even mean? Science cannot make normative judgements
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Its not a judgement. Biology observes more than just 2 sexes, and some species can change biological sex naturally. Its determined by more than just X/Y chromosomes (hormones etc are in play). So even in biology, sex is a fluid spectrum
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And, the genes for sex determination jump every so often, via transposons. And gender is far more complex than sex anyway.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @bensima
All of this is sophistry. Humans have two sexes, and sometimes people are born deformed. Social science that purports to study gender empirically is not descriptive, it is prescriptive. The null hypothesis is defined by bureaucrats and lobbyists, and science simply obeys
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Moreover, if gender is a social construct then so is transgender, and quite a recent one.
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Binary ("male-to-female", "female-to-male") transsexualism is a recent concept, sexological in origin and adapted to early 20th century still-Christian society.
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There are hundreds of recorded cultures, many quite recent, with concepts that map to transsexualism. One of the closest mappings is with the Mohave tribes, who also, uniquely among all new world tribes, have an intact myth of migration which maps to the historical evidence
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The concepts other cultures have seem to map to two fairly concrete things: gender nonconformity (dress and behavior typical for the other sex) and gender dysphoria (emotional distress over anatomy and social role).
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Do the Mohave tribes view their equivalent of transgender people as having transitioned from male to female or vice verse or as a separate gender? The former view appears uniquely Western.
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Yes, it is actually beyond the western view, there's full village rituals & a test to pass, village dance, the transitioners are initially discouraged, if they pass the test they are fully accepted, they took botanical herbs (hormones), they are considered spiritually empowered
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I remain skeptical because "they are fully accepted [as the other gender]" sounds exactly like a "progressive noble savage" thing anthropologists and their popularizers love to dream up.
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