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[–]firebird 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Isn't this yet another term they've appropriated? As far as I know the word phantom in this context is only used for amputees, with the explanation being that the brain is still wired to be able to sense a certain limb, and when it's gone it takes a while to adapt so for the brain it feels like the limb is still there. How would you be able to have a phantom anything if you never had the limb/organ/whatever in the first place?

[–]jet199 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They believe (or want us to believe) that everyone is born with a body map in their brain and trans people get born with the map of the wrong sex. This is their explanation of why some transexuals hate their genitals even as kids. However we know that as children develop they consider sex and gender the same thing so little boys will really believe their penis will drop off if they wear a dress or play with girl's toys. Likely the hatred of genitals seen in gnc kids comes from this mistaken linking.

And how the difference body map idea would apply to men in their forties who transition out of nowhere after fathering children, I don't know.

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

I do believe the body map in the brain is at least partly true.

An example is getting kicked in the nuts and feeling it in the gut, because the brain maps the body in utero before the testes descend to be external. They're mapped where the ovaries are because we all start out as female fetuses.

That's probably the worst way to describe it. But no, no, dude doesn't have a ghost vag because he wants to shove a dildo in himself.

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

It's so insulting to amputees. There's nothing these creeps won't destroy.