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.
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Replying to @AsenathWaites
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.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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.
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Replying to @AsenathWaites
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.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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?
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Replying to @AsenathWaites
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.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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?
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Replying to @AsenathWaites
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.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Well this is still saying that there would be no objective, agreed-upon definition for men and women. So what use would the terms be at all? They could be discarded and only biological sex differentiated.
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Replying to @AsenathWaites
How could they? This would require expecting people who are happy to call someone the gender they feel they are because it makes them feel recognised and doesn't harm them at all, to not do that. I'd oppose this as strongly as forcing ppl to use pronouns they don't believe in.
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Whilst we may well know one day what makes trans people trans, we will probably never agree on what gender is and how men and women should be categorized. Then it comes down to accepting that people have the right to differ on this and leaving them alone.
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