Comment No not exactly (Score 1) 374
Again sex is not binary it is much more complex.
It's not a mutation per se but a difference in how genomes get expressed.
That said it wouldn't be entirely inappropriate in the cases of gender dysphoria to call it a birth defect. Since it is something you are born with that causes a uncomfortable medical situation.
Because I played a bit of Warhammer 40K I met several trans girls. Seriously go play Warhammer you will meet some trans girls.
There was always a bit of friction between the trans girls and the gay community because when the two of them got together for support groups the gay community was primarily focused on activism while the trans groups were focused on general support group stuff for medical reasons. Basically the details of their transition.
In practice this means that yes as our technology advances trans people will more or less go away because we'll figure out the exact specifics that cause gender dysphoria.
My advice as far as understanding all this is think of this, imagine going to work and everyone looks at you funny because of how you are dressed. The next day you come in wearing a floral print dress and everyone calms down and treats you better but you feel very very uncomfortable in that dress right? That's gender dysphoria. When society forces you to express gender characteristics that don't match the ones you feel natural it causes substantial discomfort mentally. I don't know about women but it's something any man can easily imagine provided they have any imagination whatsoever which being a nerd I would expect that you do.
It's not just about cross-dressing imagine getting treated poorly because you're not in a floral print dress and aren't wearing makeup. And imagine what you would feel like if you just had to dress like that every single day to fit in with everybody else. That's gender dysphoria.
It's a medical condition that has a specific treatment plan and it's certainly true there are means of treating it today are ridiculously primitive and if our society somehow doesn't collapse they will gradually get better and better until it's just not a thing anymore.
But getting back to calling out a birth defect that's a loaded phrase because dropping defect implies the person in question is inherently defective. That might not have been your intention but you picked up on it from somewhere and you should be aware of it. Basically you want to avoid those kind of negative medical terms because outside of medicine they tend to get misused to dehumanize people.
It's the same reason we stopped saying retard. It became a way of dehumanizing people and after world War II we learned that dehumanizing people is extremely dangerous.
It's not a mutation per se but a difference in how genomes get expressed.
That said it wouldn't be entirely inappropriate in the cases of gender dysphoria to call it a birth defect. Since it is something you are born with that causes a uncomfortable medical situation.
Because I played a bit of Warhammer 40K I met several trans girls. Seriously go play Warhammer you will meet some trans girls.
There was always a bit of friction between the trans girls and the gay community because when the two of them got together for support groups the gay community was primarily focused on activism while the trans groups were focused on general support group stuff for medical reasons. Basically the details of their transition.
In practice this means that yes as our technology advances trans people will more or less go away because we'll figure out the exact specifics that cause gender dysphoria.
My advice as far as understanding all this is think of this, imagine going to work and everyone looks at you funny because of how you are dressed. The next day you come in wearing a floral print dress and everyone calms down and treats you better but you feel very very uncomfortable in that dress right? That's gender dysphoria. When society forces you to express gender characteristics that don't match the ones you feel natural it causes substantial discomfort mentally. I don't know about women but it's something any man can easily imagine provided they have any imagination whatsoever which being a nerd I would expect that you do.
It's not just about cross-dressing imagine getting treated poorly because you're not in a floral print dress and aren't wearing makeup. And imagine what you would feel like if you just had to dress like that every single day to fit in with everybody else. That's gender dysphoria.
It's a medical condition that has a specific treatment plan and it's certainly true there are means of treating it today are ridiculously primitive and if our society somehow doesn't collapse they will gradually get better and better until it's just not a thing anymore.
But getting back to calling out a birth defect that's a loaded phrase because dropping defect implies the person in question is inherently defective. That might not have been your intention but you picked up on it from somewhere and you should be aware of it. Basically you want to avoid those kind of negative medical terms because outside of medicine they tend to get misused to dehumanize people.
It's the same reason we stopped saying retard. It became a way of dehumanizing people and after world War II we learned that dehumanizing people is extremely dangerous.
