(July 19, 2023 at 10:32 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(July 19, 2023 at 10:01 pm)Tomato Wrote: You are incorrect, by convoluting the concept by comparing the skills earned in being a baseball player with the mindset of identity.And your mistake is considering identity a mindset. That is a personality trait, essentially conflating some individuals' personality traits with a social category. When it comes to identity, its validity has nothing to do with how one sees oneself. All that matters, from an identity point of view is how other people see each other. You cannot take the social part out of what gender proponents have said for decades are socially constructed categories.
Feeling like an alien within your own skin, which is what I assume it feels like, would be a far deeper thing than just some arbitrary set of personality traits. The brain and its development is plastic, including in the realm of gender identity... distinct from biological sex; for most people they develop in tandem, but not everyone clearly. So in this world where there exists the means to create better harmony between those two aspects of a person, why would you deny that existential comfort to people just for the sake of better being able to pigeon-hole them by what is, or was, in their pants?
