Helen, do you think that people feel the opposite sex because they are comparing their own behaviours/preferences with those of other people, or do you believe that if a trans person was on a desert island they'd still think there was a mismatch between their body & mind?
It seems likely that it is because we don't have to be aware of feeling the way everyone recognises us. If everyone suddenly recognised you as a man, I expect you'd feel a sharp sense of the wrongness of this which wouldn't require reasoning from your genitals.
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But that’s hypothetical really isn’t it- they wouldn’t do that, because of my biology, size etc. They will not be mistaken-
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Yes. That is not a claim that this is likely to happen. It is addressing how you'd be likely to feel if it did happen. It's a thought experiment to make you consider that. Oh dear. We've tried to talk and had this problem before, haven't we? I'll bail out now.
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Yep! I am very much a biology person- (but it goes with what I do in my work)
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