I learned that the figure of trans kids I’d read from different sources, .06, may be overestimated. That is, self-reports of feeling trans may entirely be a culture-bound syndrome and have no biological basis. “If gender is constructed, then how could trans not be a culture-bound syndrome?”

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I enjoy James Lindsay’s stuff, he’s especially helpful when you want to know the source of some brand of the nonsense as he seems to have traced every bit of weirdness back to the originating academic. It’s because of him that I found out that the paedo rights movement attached itself to the gay rights movement in the 70s and had a vast swathe of the French intelligentsia supporting their cause and that that support crossed the English Channel and the Atlantic.