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[–]BiologyIsReal 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well, that is a bit too convenient, isn't it? You claim trans identified people are legitimate because neurological sex, whatever that is, can be measured but you refuse checking someone's brain as gatekeeping method because supposedly only the wealthy could afford it. However, transactivists have campaigned in some places to get "medical transition" covered by their health system. So, why aren't there transactivists campaigning for brain scans being covered, too? Could it be because they know that if this were a thing many trans identified people would be rejected as "true trans"?

[–]MarkTwainiac 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also, as I'm sure you know but it bears repeating for the lurkers and for OP: all sorts of "transition" related care such as T blockers, cross-sex hormones, "puberty blockers," and myriad surgeries are already covered by government health care systems like the NHS in the UK, and by both private and public health insurance plans in countries like the US. If being "trans" could be discerned by a brain scan, health care authorities would be all for it - and the scans would be provided free or at very low out-of-pocket cost. Coz the financial savings would be enormous. So would the ethical benefits of being able to make sure that no one is unnecessarily subjected to "care" that can cause a great deal of harm and additional suffering. Right now, what's happening with trans-identified kids is that 100% of them are being subjected to interventions that will cause irreversible damage when it's known that nearly 9 out of 10 of them would "desist" from their "dysphoria" and cross-sex identification if they were allowed to grow up without their minds and bodies being interfered with.