Is BNST volume the thing from the neurobio video? In any case, it doesn’t really matter for my point.
If it didn’t have an impact on everyday life then it’s irrelevant for trans differences, and if it does then there’s a difference. So maybe it provides grounds for eg complaints about workplaces getting worse due to feminization. This is the core problem: the more that we understand these things, the more it could undermine common lefty positions.
The more differences and better understanding, the more justification there is for “transphobia” (which is any non-trans-affirming thought, afaict), and the more that some people will think that we’ll be able to address gender dysphoria medically (which is obviously not trans affirming).
Oh and if we get noninvasive tests then someone is going to say we can use it to tell the real trans from fake trans and I don’t see that being well received.
That’s why TRAs might not want research etc. There is also an argument that conservatives might not like this either because it could legitimize some trans stuff. An example of the latter: the trans mice thing that trump/doge made a point of like a year ago. That study to me seemed like a good study on the face of it.
I agree. I’m not sure what your point is here.
(My point about binary factors wasn’t that anything particular is an important/decisive factor, just that there are such factors, or if there are that people will weaponize it)
Yes, but that’s what some conservatives have been saying (more or less). That it’s cultural and memetic. The ‘woke mind virus’ is exactly this. So if we found out scientifically that was true, it would destroy the TRA position.
Oh the post-mortem thing, I agree. It’d be useful to know if we can we detect it in babies / very young children. (Though obviously we can’t use this as a predictive test and even a predictive test has issues controlling for culture.)
Yeah, see above. It’s not about whether I think it or not, it’s just that some people will, and some TRAs have realized this (long ago, I suspect).
Sure but do you feel the same the other way? Would you defend moderate conservatives resisting the changes to language and acceptable speech being pushed by people obviously bigoted against cis people?
Because that’s the principled approach (or at least there’s a good argument to be made for it being the principled approach; that being the origin of meaning).
So, many trans people think that taking HRT turns you biologically into a woman. Insane, I know, but true. Majority? IDK, but as a minority they are loud.
Of course they know, and ‘completely identical in every way’ is too high a bar.
IDK if you are aware, but there was some twitter drama about this recently. It seems to me that you and I both have some similar position to Dev’s, putting aside his colorful language:
Video link is timestamped so you can see a bunch of responses to Dev’s tweet immediately after.
This was the response that I saw getting the most attention (and I think this is an early screenshot because others of this post I’ve seen had more likes).
The singular they/them has historically been used specifically for unspecified or unknown gender. Not for people who want to be outside the binary or whatever. eg “The customer said they wanted a bagel”. That’s fine. “John said they wanted a bagel.” Who is john talking about? Himself? A group? The customer from the previous sentence? Who knows. That was the demarcation. I remember a brief discussion in highschool english about the singular use of they, and at the time I couldn’t put my finger on why some uses felt weird, and some felt normal. I understand it now, but this idea that the contemporary (like lefties push its use today) singular ‘they’ has been used commonly is not accurate. Even wikipedia acknowledges this.
Woman is another word that has historically been used to mean an adult female human. It was clear. Now it’s a social role, too, whatever that means. To me, this seems kind of sexist (and it ignores roles like giving birth).
Anyway, it seems contradictory of you to selectively apply logic like this.
“Pushed” is a strong word. TCS had a norm of doing it for the reasons you stated, but that’s totally different to what’s being done today. They weren’t pushing it on people or forcing other people to use it (to my knowledge, at least). I remember the first time I heard someone (circa 202x) use one that I knew from TCS (can’t remember which), and it only convinced me even more about how ridiculous and performative the whole thing is.
Seems like this is the common answer on google. I’m happy to use whatever acronym if you know another.
Well GC is a position and transphobe is not .
You’re aware of the labeling-self-fulfilling-prophesy idea right? Like how it waters down the term, normalizes the ideas, and encourages people that you label to consider adopting the more extreme ideas, etc? IDK how real an effect it is, but it certainly seems like it might be real. Like did the left calling everyone nazis for a decade make it easier for nick fuentes to spew nazi shit? Anyway, just maybe something to consider. I think transphobia has increased in part due to every little thing being called transphobic.
I think both play a role (how much of each depends on the individual).
A new post at some point is probably best.
Probably not, in part because it’s done outside the syllabus (sometimes, not always), and also school isn’t something I’ve experienced recently or know that much about (meaning contemporary schooling).
I did see something from a high school math syllabus recently that included stuff about indigenous something or other (not even sure what there is to study considering a lack of written language). When you are including something like that next to calculus, I think it’s fair to say there is some external force involving itself.
Another example is teaching kids in primary school about anal sex. How common is that? IDK, and I’m not sure that anyone does, but it’s not zero, and I think it’s reasonable for parents to object to that kind of thing.
I’ve also seen (online) things like a US classroom removing US flags and putting up rainbow/trans flags; that seems pretty obviously inappropriate.
Generally no. But I’ve seen enough to know that it happens sometimes and that I don’t like it.
WRT schools teaching religion, I think that happens less these days and isn’t as much of a problem as it used to be. I included it because I’m against teaching all of them for the same reason.