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When a trans activist says that they were born into the wrong body, what part of them was put into the wrong body?

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[–]reluctant_commenter 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There are many people who claim that trans people were born "in the wrong body" because of a misunderstanding about research on brain differences between the sexes. But that difference disappears when you control for homosexuality; it's not driven by transgenderism. (And anyway, these are differences in group averages, it's not like there's a "man brain" and a "woman brain" in the first place.)

But the idea of being born in the wrong body implies that there is a non-corporeal part of you independent of the body. Specifically a part of you that existed before you were born, since they say "BORN INTO the wrong body", which eliminates the argument that they are talking about their brains somehow.

Yeah, that really is a religious belief. Makes me wonder whether, in the US anyway where all this bullshit is at the most extreme, people are just using their beliefs in transgender ideology as a substitute for religion.

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

I think people fail to understand that the decline in organized religion does not necessarily equate to a decline in people who need to believe in something like that.

Many Americans just replaced crosses with crystals and special snowflake connections to a higher power with special snowflake mental conditions.

It's extremely telling that the trans Community has had such a hard push to lift the stigma of self-diagnosis. Especially since most of these people have already self diagnosed themselves with everything else under the sun.