Well, it’s not a case of “a bunch of loudmouths shouting.” The leading psychiatric associations recognize gender dysphoria as an actual issue; recent brain scans have indicated biological links between identified gender and biological brain markers. While studies are still in their infancy — not surprising in a country that just legalized gay marriage two years ago and still has a sizeable population resisting against that — to say it’s just a purely manufactured issue is wholly inaccurate.
While I don’t get it personally, I’m not about to write off people’s experiences and arguments for it when it’s an issue that literally doesn’t negatively impact my life one bit nor that of anyone I know and it’s not harming anyone, particularly when actual research may indicate the assumptions of the loudmouth fundamentalist culture I grew up in may be incorrect. It’s not my place or anyone else’s to judge, though there are those using an unclear 5000 year old collection of books to loudly argue their case.
ripple wrote:
nc452010 wrote:
“You’re conflating sex and gender. It’s not picking and choosing to recognize gender identity vs biological sex. “
Whatever you need to tell yourself.
Thank you for posting this. I know it's not a popular stance. There is no scientific or genetic evidence for gender identity as a construct. In fact gender used to be a synonym for sex (the noun).
Just because a group of loudmouths shout something louder than everyone else doesn't make it true. And that applies to a lot of stuff, ideology notwithstanding.