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[–]clownworlddropout 22 insightful - 2 fun22 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

As a biologist the "biology is on our side" bullshit annoys me more than anything else. They're smug in their ignorance.

Biology and evolution are emphatically against their nonsense, the only so-called "science" on their side comes from the social sciences which carry absolutely zero weight when pitted against a real science like biology.

The misrepresented facts they dish out deal mainly with the complexity of hormonal expression and the many ways it can malfunction, along with the absurd stance that genital birth defects are a significant source of information regarding the number of sexes our species consists of.

They also allude to a couple of horribly limited and horribly biased experiments that measured "trans brains" against their "cis" counterparts, completely ignoring that the participants weren't just glorified cross-dressers but homosexuals as well, and that the results of the study could have been predicted based on studies conducted a decade earlier on homosexual brains.

[–]jacques1102 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I know that scientists don't deny gender dysphoria being a real thing, but it really baffles me why so many in the medical field buys into the whole trapped inside the wrong body part.A question to ask you since you brought up evolution,do we know of any species that can be trapped inside the wrong sex's body?I have notice many trans activist have tried to argue of cases like clown fishes that can be able to change their sex, or they use a case of this one lion that was intersex, but none of that is proof of them being trapped inside the wrong body.It seems odd because the only way that i've seen trans activist argued as to why trans women are women is resorting to gender sterotypes which doesn't prove anything.

[–]clownworlddropout 16 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Gender dysphoria is a real thing as much as any form of body integrity identity disorder is a real thing, in that it is a mental illness related to the patients perception of their own body. It's not anything more than any other mental illness and only has it's own category because it relates tangentially to sex and monke brain thinks sex is super important.

The trapped in the wrong body stuff is a rehashing of the old mind/body dualism, it's the modern soul under a cheap veneer of pseudoscience.

[–]QueenBread 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You are making way too much sense for this website! You're the first commenter I read on saidit that actually is writing good comments.