I mean, yes, I think anti trans people are saying it matters more what your DNA says your hair color would be than what it actually is. Which is ridiculous, but that's transphobia for you (and that's the importance we as a society have placed on "biological sex")
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This idea that God actually wrote DNA with a purpose in mind creeps into people's language all the time "Genetically he's normal but something 'went wrong in the womb'", etc
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The key thing it has in common with the homunculus theory, the one thing that needs to be debunked and shoved out of people's minds, is this idea of an "intended human body" that was "written into your DNA" that it's possible to "deviate" from
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Your DNA isn’t something that happens to you. You do not exist prior to your DNA. There is no ‘you’ there before to conception. Your DNA isn’t trivial. It had profound effects on your cognition, your personality, and your health.
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No book you read will give you cystic fibrosis. Lack of parental love will not make you autistic. No inspirational trachervwill change your sex. Your DNA has profound effect on your development. Variation in gene expression is not the same as ‘environmental’.
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