My question for all troons out there is simply this: whence cometh the 'female brain'? I'm not saying real women can't, shouldn't or don't do animation/play video games etc. but the proof of the pudding is in the fact that I could tell that this guy was a troon based off of a single word in his YouTube channel description.
How is it that these people can claim to 'feel' like women when in terms of behaviour, appearance, sexuality, anatomy and interests they're indistinguishable from normal men? How do they reconcile this? When they say shit like 'I know I'm a woman because I feel like I'm one', what the fuck are they basing that off, exactly?
Dang,
@Sailor Troon beat me to the punch (good answer btw) but I'll add my two cents nevertheless. As with most questions relating to gender ideology, you'll get a slightly different answer depending on which trans person in particular you ask. Much of the rhetoric surrounding gendered brains is obfuscating almost by design - as if the intent is that outsiders encounter a dozen slightly different versions of the same belief, assume the topic is too complex for their benighted cis minds to grasp, and leave the troons alone.
A lot of it is simply confirmation bias. You, a (presumably) rational observer, might see a male person engaging in exclusively male-dominated hobbies and fail to understand how they could ever claim to "feel like a woman"; however, these people are merely looking for evidence to support an existing belief. Being male causes them discomfort (because of their dysphoria/autism/lack of typical masculinity), but they
do like the idea of being female (because they hate themselves/are attracted to men/it makes them rock hard), so they
must be women since gender logic dictates that your true gender is whatever feels correct.
It's up to them to figure out how that makes sense, so they'll take their lifelong inability to fit in with other guys, or distaste for sports, or the one time they pretended to be a girl on the Internet at age twelve, as incontrovertible proof that they possess a Divine Female Essence or somesuch - disregarding their masculine interests and personality traits as an unavoidable result of the male socialisation that was forced upon them. Place yourself in the mind of a troon and it almost seems logical: if you brought up a real girl as if she were male, she'd take on certain masculine qualities too, right? I'm only into strategy games and Marvel comics and World War II heavy artillery weapons because I was
raised with the expectation that I'd be into these things. (Cue enormous sperg about how women can participate in their hobbies too and you're a misogynist for apparently claiming otherwise.)
It's also not uncommon for (typically transmedical-leaning) troons to assert that trans people's brains are
actually wired differently in accordance with the opposite sex as an appeal to common sense - as far as I'm aware, there is no solid evidence for this claim, so it really amounts to the same "gender essence" nonsense with a scientific coat of paint. Ask five trans people what gender actually
is and you'll end up with six different answers. It's a collection of stereotypes, but also it's innate to every person, but also it's a secret other thing that you need to be trans to understand. Don't expect it to make sense.
