(April 30, 2021 at 3:14 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: That boys are so and so and girls are such and such is not an empirical observation. It's a cultural assertion. That assertion doesn't just effect cisgender people, it effects us all. As another poster pointed out...theres a difference between transgenderism and dysmorphia. In dysmorphia, we feel that our body map is profoundly inaccurate with respect to our desires. That we have the wrong set of gear, that our gear is insufficient or unacceptable. In transgenderism, we feel that our gender designation is inaccurate, that we are the wrong gender regardless of our gear. This latter perception explicitly aims at the cultural assertion as it's point of reference.
I agree with one caveat.
Anyone who has raised kids knows that boys and girls aren't the same on average. Hormones affect the brain.
That being said, there is a huge amount of variation, and I agree that culturally-assigned gender roles often don't fit the person, and we all suffer from it.
In many ways I'm a typical male. In some ways I'm not. Allowing everyone the freedom to be themselves is a worthy goal, whether it is in sexual attraction, or personal expression.
