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Wasn't this the mainstream argument in support of both sexual and gender identity for a while? With the narrative of the secular scientific liberal fighting for LGBT rights against the religious Christian conservatives claiming LGBT to be mental illness, perversion, and sin?
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things are more complex. we're fighting a war on multiple fronts: conservatives, who care as much about trans brains as they did about 'the gay gene', and TERFs, who swap between biological and sociological arguments as and when it benefits them
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That makes sense. Things have changed... I suppose I can see why certain arguments would fall out of favour. Although aside from biological determinism not carrying much weight, it's still difficult for me to understand how determinism is used in support of transphobia.
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The notion of immutability undermines our bodily autonomy, particularly as a factor in the research that influences our treatment access, ie it feeds into medical gatekeeping, which is transphobic.
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Indirect transphobia.
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The idea was that sexual orientation and gender identities were ultimately a choice, and they were an immoral choice. Therefore, the determinism argument was presented in counter to the choice argument in support of LGBT rights.
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