Oh, ffs. My own professed beliefs have not changed. I still support trans identity and don't support authoritarian, unreasonable & aggressive trans activists. And, yes, I still disagree with radfems.pic.twitter.com/udlmeAztxY
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That one also annoyed the mad trans activists tho who called me a TERF, tho. That was a fun week...
I agree with most of this, but not the scientific evidence for transgender identity. You know that male and female populations have overlapping brain structure distributions. I'm sure you wouldn't argue that all men towards the feminine end of the distribution are actually women.
Entirely depends on how you define women. If by gonads, no, if by sense of themselves, yes. This is the pointless semantic argument that goes on and on.
My point there is that there are numerous males in these studies with more "feminine" brains who don't identify as trans women. I assume you wouldn't argue that they should be forcibly classified as such. So I don't see how a definition based on brain structures is feasible.
It is a bit more complicated than that. Several studies showing different things. It is a fact that some people feel the opposite sex to their gonads and science is starting to show why this might be. Nobody should be forcibly classified as anything.
Yes more complex as we're dealing with the human brain, but unless you subscribe to men and women being universally and fundamentally different psychologically, there is no way one can feel like one sex or the other. Should there not be an objective definition for men and women?
Yes, but we don't know what it is yet. We will probably end up with a load of different figures, bimodal and scaled to do with gonads, chromosomes, genes, brains and hormones that denote femaleness & maleness and will then understand why some ppl don't feel same sex as gonads.
Brain science will never be clear cut, so this is basically saying there will be no real definition for men and women but rather a gender spectrum based on distributions along curves. Why not just categorize by sex but support people dressing/behaving how they want anyway?
Or just let people decide whether to categorize by sex or by the other person's gender identity? You'd probably do the former and I the latter.
Good piece. One criticism: while male and female brains are different on average, there is considerable overlap across sexes. Many ciswomen have physiological brain traits more common in cismen and vice-versa. Hence you can't tell sex or gender just by looking at a brain.
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