(June 13, 2015 at 4:13 am)Chuck Wrote: Is there a reason to say Bruce/carlin Jenner is a stegosaur if he/she/it feels with every fiber of his/her/its being that he/she/it is a roof lizard?
You could try looking at reproducible scientific data to decide rather than lumping all things that you don't understand together into one phenomenon.
Transgendered people can be shown to have the same brains as the gender that they claim to be. It's been known for a long time but now we don't have to dissect the brains of trans people, we can scan them while they're still alive, even before they start taking hormones.
But you're on very shaky ground if you're equating this with someone who identifies as black when they were born white because you are then saying that black and white people have different brains and there is no scientific evidence for that.
With the latter you are referring to something completely different, but even this isn't that odd to my mind.
We are a mixture of nature and nurture. You don't choose where you were born and where you were raised. And it's obvious that society is made up of a whole range of different types of people. So it's not that difficult to appreciate that some people may not have been born and raised in cultures that are the best fit for who they naturally are as people. This can lead to a mismatch between their natural characters and how they are raised.
After all, if it wasn't then this forum wouldn't have American members would it as you'd all be Christians.
So I don't see it as particularly odd that someone may identify more with black culture even though they are white. What is unusual is passing yourself off as black.
