RE: Understanding transgenderism.
April 28, 2021 at 11:09 pm
(This post was last modified: April 28, 2021 at 11:55 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
Gender exists in a continuum with biological sex. It exists as a real part of person's psyche before extending out to form any cultural aggregate. Gender is individualistic, it is behavioral, it is performative, and it is an identity. Terms like gender roles exist to describe the cultural manifestations of gender, which emerge out of our individualistic behaviors.
To assume there are no biological components of gender is to misunderstand how the brain works. That every psychological trait is heritable is the first law of behavioral genetics. Moreover, the developmental process by which bodies become masculinized or feminized, through hormones such as testosterone, invoke a form of biological genderization. (Anytime you hear the words masculine or feminine you've crossed over into the territory of gender.) In other words, gender takes the baton to finish the race that sex started. And it is this biological genderization that many transsexuals are after. They don't just want to be reassigned to female, they want to transition to a woman. They are chasing after a feminine body, not just a female body.
That's not a sentiment unique to transgender. Many of us wish we looked more masculine or feminine than we already do. We might have been born males, but we still chase after a more manly body. That's no longer sex, that's gender.
To assume there are no biological components of gender is to misunderstand how the brain works. That every psychological trait is heritable is the first law of behavioral genetics. Moreover, the developmental process by which bodies become masculinized or feminized, through hormones such as testosterone, invoke a form of biological genderization. (Anytime you hear the words masculine or feminine you've crossed over into the territory of gender.) In other words, gender takes the baton to finish the race that sex started. And it is this biological genderization that many transsexuals are after. They don't just want to be reassigned to female, they want to transition to a woman. They are chasing after a feminine body, not just a female body.
That's not a sentiment unique to transgender. Many of us wish we looked more masculine or feminine than we already do. We might have been born males, but we still chase after a more manly body. That's no longer sex, that's gender.
