How sure are you of your beliefs?

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[–]levoyageur718293 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think any of that matters. For the sake of argument, I'd be prepared to concede that there is such a thing as a "proprioceptive blueprint:"

  • a mental sense that a person has about how their body is "supposed to" look and be shaped,
  • which does have a physical presence in the brain and could be discerned in unconscious people or even corpses with sufficient instruments,
  • and that some people have a proprioceptive blueprint that is wildly different from how their body actually developed,
  • EDIT: and one example of this mismatch might be in the realm of the body's sex differentiation,
  • and that this mis-match causes them acute anxiety,
  • and that we might consider medical intervention to make their body match their proprioceptic blueprint.

None of this means that males who suffer from a mismatch based on sex organs should be allowed into the female preserve. That's an entirely separate question, it is a sociological question, and it has nothing to do with medicine.