The “between the ears not the knees” conclusion *is* the essentializing of gender identity, and that's clearly central to point she's making. I honestly don't understand how you could read the paper as saying otherwise except in obvious bad faith.
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The thing being, TERFs also do believe in this kind of immutable truth about "between the ears" stuff - like sexual orientation - and find any suggestion of fluidity in that regard deeply threatening and violating etc
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(It is of course in no sense "stamped on every cell of the body", regardless. Some cells have no DNA! Haploid cells are haploid! Mosaicism exists!)
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