1/ The current wave of gender identity pseudoscience is great for people who are convinced their gender identity is innate, which they
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2/ have every right to believe, but which faces a big evidence problem as a universal account of gender development. But this view pretty
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3/ aggressively screws over anyone whose view of their identity is more complex, or whose trajectory was more complex. And the main group
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4/ of people who talk about gender identity being a complicated, fluid, multifaceted things are... trans people themselves. People adopt
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5/ an oversimplified view of "born this way" on trans issues without considering any of the potential political consequences. It bad.
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I don't see why you see this as pseudoscience. There is evidence of people intuiting something and they express it
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one way to explain those expression is to posit that there might be something internal to the individual that interacts with
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the fact that people are not pre-programmed for English, doesnt undermine the possibility of an innate language capacity
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plus, what you just said is viewed as transphobic in many circles: that environmental influences can matter
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