I think thats why you get such pushback. trans people are generally not in power positions, and people pushing ideas that our
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most virulent foes adopt is seen as (in)directly antagonistic
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working on a blog post about sexual orientations toward middle-aged people (!), but the choice/not-choice thing is diff
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from innate/non-innate. I also think it's silly to believe that transphobes give a shit whether it's innate or not. they
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are operating from a place of disgust and will cherrypick whatever evidence they find. in the meantime some trans folks
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yes, and you are giving them juicy cherries, you must admit that
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that's fine. evolutionary biology also gives nazis cherrys. the idea that that's going to affect how we understand
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and talk about scientific questions is really, really off-base imo. in the long run it'll cause more probs than it solves
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I agree, I'm only into it as a personal hobby, not anything political. I just get miffed by what I see as tendentious interps
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or naive "just the facts" sorts of dodges
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my vote is for an understanding of gender ID that frames it as neither innate nor a choice. fits the most personal stories
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