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who later shows love to this other woman, and the viewers' reaction to this drama in the comments was often that lesbians are men (trapped) in women's bodies so the drama accurately portrays lesbians.

If this were true of all lesbians, wouldn't they all be men, and so not be attracted to one another but only to straight women? I don't think this logically works, even if you leave aside the homophobic issues.

And beyond that you have to begin from some pretty unfounded spiritual assumptions, which is fine for your personal beliefs but not reasonable when making a scientific argument. Asking someone to prove why trans men or lesbians aren't "male souls trapped in female bodies" is a useless premise for a debate when you haven't shown that there could be any such thing as a "male soul" to begin with. Answer what you mean by a soul, how does it exist, how is it male, how does it inhabit a female body, and then maybe we can talk about if your theory makes sense. Just using a word and hoping it sort of fills in the blanks through vague metaphors is not science.

It's even more complicated for a "male brain" since that is something that you don't even imagine to exist separately from the body. So why should we consider it to have a sex distinct from the body it spends its entire life as a component of? It's the brain of the body it belongs to, so to say it has a different sex there needs to be a way to explain the way a brain has a reproductive system...