RE: Are you non-binary?
July 18, 2020 at 6:19 am
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2020 at 6:24 am by Porcupine.)
(July 17, 2020 at 8:44 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: No; I believe you're pointing out a poor choice of words. A choice I often make intentionally. I've noticed that most people prefer brief simplicity over lengthy accuracy.
Ah. Understood. No problem then.
Personally, I'd take NOTHING over accuracy---lengthy or otherwise.
(July 17, 2020 at 4:07 pm)Grandizer Wrote:(July 17, 2020 at 6:53 am)Lawz Wrote: Hardly. Considering the MZ twins share the vast majority of central environmental influences too (eg parenting, country, neighbourhood, schooling, DVDs etc etc etc) and the concordance rate is still just 40%, it would be fairly reasonable to deduce that genetics has an extremely negligible, if not entirely non-existent role in bringing about gender dysphoria.
lol, I gather you don't have much of an academic background in social science.
There would be less gender dysphoria if we lived in a less transphobic society.
If we eliminated transphobia altogether, sure, there may be SOME dysphoria left over---but most of it would be replaced by gender euphoria. i.e. a strong desire to become the person one most feels one is ... without all the intense emotional pain that usually actually comes about via practically a whole world, usually including your own family and friends, telling you that you're wrong to feel that way.
Transgenderism is not a mental illness. Abuse often causes mental illness. And behaving transphobic towards trans people is a form of abuse. And a thunderously widespread abuse at that.
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