RE: Transexuals
April 14, 2016 at 12:29 pm
(This post was last modified: April 14, 2016 at 12:51 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(April 14, 2016 at 2:12 am)Mathilda Wrote:(April 13, 2016 at 6:52 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Fair enough. How about people who identify as a different species or as a different race than what they physically/biologically are? If those are indeed psychological disorders, in what ways would you say they are different from identifying as a different sex?
People who identify with a different species (if there are any, I doubt there are) do not have matching brain scans.
There is also no discernible difference in brain scans between different races, such as there is between male and female.
Transsexuals have the same type of brains as the gender that they identify with.
Yes, there are such people, though it is very rare. They are called "otherkin."
Ok, I can see what you're saying about the brain scan and it makes sense, and it does further set them apart from the examples I mentioned above. However, couldn't it still be considered some form of disorder for the brain to be one sex and the rest of the body to be a different sex? Isn't that the crux of the word "disorder," in its most basic form, that something is not "ordered" properly?
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