Moreover, this kind of argument presupposes that if transness is to be tolerated at all we have to imagine it descending upon people's heads like a bolt of lightning by chance And if it seems to occur by anything other than a perfectly random lottery then it's sinister and fake
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Luarien and
Which is nonsense -- being trans, like literally every other thing a human being can be, has to be the result of some combination of genes and environment Siblings raised in the same household share both The odds of clusters of trans siblings should be pretty good
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Replying to @n8inSLC @arthur_affect and
Secondary school *science* teacher, please. No business being a secondary school *science* teacher.
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Replying to @Shelducks8 @n8inSLC and
Arthur asserts that being trans is about genes and the environment just like 'literally every other thing that humans can be'. He does this because he likes the sciencey truthiness of the words.
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Replying to @Shelducks8 @n8inSLC and
But of course, humans can be lots of things for which the immediate genetic component is close to zero. For example: catholic, hungry, covered in jam. If a parent brings their children up to believe in a literal religious truth, the fact of the children's shared DNA
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Replying to @Shelducks8 @n8inSLC and
doesn't really matter - it doesn't allow us to conclude that they have some inner, genetically bestowed, religious essence. It is their shared environment that did it: the beliefs and actions of the parent.
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Replying to @Shelducks8 @n8inSLC and
If most or even the majority of trans children had trans-affirming parents the whole "ROGD" moral panic simply could not exist
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Nah it's basic and obvious as shit, to anyone who isn't a dipshit TERF
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