So you think lipstick is what makes a woman a woman? That there were no women before lipstick was invented?
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Really? Genetics? Not phenotypic development? Huh. I’d expect even a transphobic gender essentialist to focus on phenotypic development. When you say “genetics,” do you mean having XX sex chromosomes, or lacking an SRY gene?
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Replying to @avram @arthur_affect and
What do you mean by phenotype if it isn’t an expression of genes interacting with the environment? Do you believe phenotype is independent of genotype?
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Replying to @Shatterface @arthur_affect and
“Genes interacting with the environment” isn’t the same thing as just genes, right? The moment you concede that the same gene can express in different ways in various circumstances, you’re no longer in “just genetics” land.
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Replying to @avram @arthur_affect and
What environmental influence will turn a man into a woman or vis-versa?
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Replying to @Shatterface @avram and
Do you believe Arthur Chu when he says he could have been born into another body and yet have still been him?
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Replying to @Shatterface @avram and
What I meant by that is I would have a "different body" if ANYTHING changed in my childhood I would have a different body if I got in a car accident at the age of four, or a chemical burn at 15, or a drug overdose at 32 Being conceived with different genes is the same thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Shatterface and
There is no "essential self" written into DNA Your genes are accruing mutations constantly anyway, that's part of what aging is
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Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and
I’m not accruing someone else’s genes. That’s as moronic as saying I’m accruing your age.
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Your genes don't have name tags on them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and
I don’t need to tag them as they aren’t likely to wander off and get lost.
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Replying to @Shatterface @avram and
So the question of your genes changing into "someone else's" genes is completely meaningless, it's just more essentialism Your genes *change*, that's the only important thing
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