Hey everyone. Howl said it won't happen so feel better.
I'll keep my eyes open, all the same, thanks.
KhanJohnny posted...
Sound reasoning isn't the same as relying on feelings. That I am a man, is based on more than my feelings about it. There is scientific evidence for how we should define men and women, but that only provides the material for us to form our conceptions about the two genders.The progressive understanding of gender, based on the available evidence, is self-contradictory and irrational. That is why it's a bad definition. Not because I feel differently about it.
All you have is evidence to back up your feeling that you're a man. Not proof. Things you have been taught that have told you "you are a man because..."
We keep learning. We evolve our understanding of science. Biological sex is not an immutable "one or the other" and we've known about that for quite some time.
What is self-contradictory about "the progressive understanding of gender"?
I can't go into detail because GameFAQs might ban me. But you can search for yourself arguments against transgender identity quite easily using Google.
There's actually pretty good evidence to back up transgenderism in the case of male-to-female or female-to-male. On the other hand, stuff like "bi-gender" or "genderfluid" or <insert something completely unrelated to male vs female here> has literally zero scientific backing, unless you count sociological studies based on "this is how people told us they feel" or "this is what certain groups have accepted" (ie: nothing based in actual biology, or brain scans, etc).
Though of course, the fact that science backs up that it exists also doesn't mean everyone who claims it applies to them, really is transgender. But you can usually tell those who are vs those who are just playing it for attention, by whether they actively draw attention to that they're trans or try to just blend in as a normal member of their (new) gender.
There is evidence that a male can feel like a female subjectively. None that a male is a female on the basis of such feelings.