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[–]HeimdeklediROAR 2 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 5 fun -  (6 children)

Because Gender Identity is just something that causes you to absorb the behaviors and norms of a specific perceived sex trait group in an unconscious manner, usually starting from a very early age. It does not include preprogrammed behaviors (aside from absorbing what is happening around you).

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex[S] 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

How? Then what is gender identity? What is this entity that causes a person to develop instincts that serve no survival purpose? Why is this instinct to absorb behaviours not recognised by any child development experts? Did they all miss that class? How does an instinct direct someone to people they can instinctually tell are not like them? Are you saying a little boy who wants to be a girl is not aware that he is different to the girls? Why don’t all the other kids have an instinct to absorb gendered messages and behaviours and instead learn regular old sexed socialisation?

[–]HeimdeklediROAR 2 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

You don’t know that it doesn’t serve an evolutionary purpose. A sex trait group identity instinct could certainly be said to have a purpose in groups of bonobos or chimps what with those species forming sex trait groups to control the interactions of the larger groups that they’re a part of (matriarchal and patriarchal structures respectively).

I mean children are considered to rapidly absorb the information in their surrounding environment so that part isn’t controversial, as to why they haven’t proposed such an instinct before, perhaps they never thought about it.

People can’t instinctually tell, as this would be an instinct that begins to take affect (I think) as soon as infants and toddlers can tell their parents apart, which occurs before the ability of people to begin to analyze themselves by such standards.

Initially no, but even afterwards the group identity instinct may cause them to feel sameness with their identified group even after transphobic explanations to the contrary.

They do.

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So how do we know this instinct is what’s really causing the trans phenomenon?

How does an instinct work if it tells someone with a penis and testicles that he is the same as the “sex trait group” (what a term🙄) when he clearly isn’t?

Are you saying trans identity is caused by an instinct that has malfunctioned?

How come you’re the only person I’ve ever seen with this theory?

[–]loveSloaneDebate King 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Huh?

[–]HeimdeklediROAR 2 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

What are you “huh?”-ing about?

[–]loveSloaneDebate King 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

What does the word salad in your comment mean?