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[–]RationalNeutral 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

This would be a good reason for funding medical research on transgender people. Not just to be better able to treat transgender people, but to also improve the precision in the understanding of medicine as it applies to cisgender people.

[–]lefterfield 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

No it isn't. This would be a good reason to acknowledge the difference between sex and gender identity, ie, the latter doesn't exist. TIMs have male-typical symptoms for heart attacks, TIFs have female-typical.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah, and this is sort of my point. Just because you're pumped up with exogenous hormones doesn't mean that you change sex. If anything, it just broadens the range of things that you might be susceptible to.

[–]RationalNeutral 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Some cells do fundamentally alter their function in response to exogenous hormones. Some don't. The specifics of which are incompletely understood due to insufficient research in this field of medicine. Hence, more information is needed by doing that research.

[–]whateverneverpine 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

LOL, sex doesn't change. They need more info on how to help prevent young people buying into the fantasy.