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Assuming that your experiment is possible, and even granting an optimal outcome for your experiment, all that you are claiming it would demonstrate is potentially "significant correlations". This is a long way short of the causal relationship necessary for a theory of biological gender determination to be established. *chortles* Whereas your theory that gender is a social construction has enormous amounts of ev-... what's that? You have NO EVIDENCE for your theory of gender as a social construction? You're shitting me, right? Surely you must have SOMETHING.
As they say, absence of evidence does not provide evidence of absence, but that sure as shit is the claim you're attempting to make. You're engaging in argumentum ad ignorantiam and you supposedly based a PHD on this? Your examiners must have been incompetent.
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It's interesting that you introduce evidence of brain scans on transgender people. If gender was biologically determined, the transgender phenomenon wouldn't exist would it? Nonsense. There's no evidence that, in the vast majority of cases, transgenderism is anything other than a mental illness.
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If gender was biologically determined, these people's gender identities would remain consistent with their biological sex, which is the exact opposite of what happens in the cases of many transgender people. Part of what I enjoy about you is watching you trip yourself up with non-logic.
If consistency with biological sex is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what occurs with transgender people, then CLEARLY, that's a binary state. You can have consistency with your biological sex or the opposite of your biological sex. Ergo, gender is a binary state and consequently your "more than 2 genders" and "gender fluidity" speculations are clearly fucking nonsense.
This is the problem. You're not a thinker and you fail to understand that you're holding mutually exclusive opinions.
For example: If gender is a social construct, then why do transgender folk simply not declare "I am of this gender" and be done with it? Why do they - in their quest for supposed gender resolution - align themselves with all the external signs we associate with the masculine or the feminine. Transgender women dress as women do, wear makeup as women do, adjust their vocal pitch to be more like that of a woman, take hormones so their biology aligns with that of women and then pay a surgeon to cut them until they biologically resemble women as much as possible. Transgender men bulk up on the testosterone and wear male clothing.
If gender is a social construct, then why are transgender people obsessed with biology? And why, after engaging in transition surgery do they STILL commit suicide at rates 20 times that of the average individual? Perhaps because a significant number (one study found 62.7%) also have at least one mental illness. Do ya think that might have something to do with it?
The problem, as I see it, is that ignorance and stupidity like yours, kills. Current treatment options for the transgendered do nothing to address their condition. And the high presence of mental illness supports the idea that gender dysphoria is largely a psychological disorder. Attributing the high suicide rates of the transgendered to "society gives them a rough time" is irresponsible. And using their condition as a prop for your own fucked up ides on gender is a disgusting, morally bankrupt thing to do. These people need genuine help and they're not getting it.
There are exceptions where chromosomal variation can interfere with nominal development and result in individuals with biology which may contribute to this kind of condition. However, and this is the kicker, to accept this, you have to accept the idea that gender is controlled by biology. And this is an area of study which genuinely requires more research.
See, this is the problem, you nutty, man-hating, pseudo-intellectual. You cannot think and reason to save your life. You trot out the same nonsense you were indoctrinated with and can't even begin to examine the non-logic implied. Once again, "incompetent" is the most apt description which comes to mind.
I read this and i started thinking... what if the whole transgender thing is actually a form of dissociation... a form of identity disorder where you no longer identify with yourself. Perhaps some type of trauma happened (could be even as simple as a bad argument or something more severe) where the person decided that they didn't want to 'be' that. Do they disassociated with their gender... perhaps spent some time in a 'fog' (not really associating with male or female) and then chose the construct of the 'Other' gender as a survival strategy. If this were true, it could be difficult to diagnose because most likely the person wouldn't remember the trigger and they might not be self- aware enough to observe that process happening in themself.
If this were true, it would suggest a type of treatment to help the person identify any resentment (for lack of a better word) against their birth biological sex and construct a healthy view of it. But perhaps by this point the brain would be 'too far gone' in it's assimilation/accomodation self- identify reconstruction as would be observed in a strong refusal/denial to try to reassociate with their birth- sex gender attributes.
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