Jacques1194
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Thank you for this. To answer your first question, I did ask him the question about brain scans not being a part of the gender affirming process and his argument was that I was assuming gender identity had a clear neurological basis, and that I'm misunderstanding the nature of neuroscience and how medical diagnoses work in general. He goes on to state that we would see different brain structures of people with schizophrenia, autism, depression, etc. where we already know there are neurological markers, and that one cant just simply do a single brain scan and go "This person has autism" and that we wouldn't need to rely on behavioral or psychological assessments from doctors if that were the case.If transgenderism is brain-based, then why don't they do a brain scan, or any kind of neurological testing on people seeking transition so they can prevent the patient from facing future struggles with detransition, including damage to the endocrine system and literal amputation/mutilation? Why do they dole out hormones and surgeries after hearing them say "I think, therefore I am" instead of doing a medical test? I don't know which brain studies he was looking at (you should probably get him to show which ones, they're all shit and you can probably find a debunking of one if you search for the study, author, and a debunk/breakdown), or if he looked at them at all instead of just taking other peoples words for it, but he probably believes there's a benefit to "real" trans people when they get gender-affirming care. Recent studies have shown that trans people are MORE suicidal after medically transitioning, and even old anecdotes show that trans people killing themselves after transitioning is an age-old tradition. So transitioning doesn't even help them.
They are, literally, misinterpreting their preferences. Trans people are 3-6 times more likely to be autistic, which on it's own is enough to justify social confusion, and especially social identity confusion like "I want long hair and painted nails, am I a girl?". There's also the contagious ideas about how "if you've thought about being trans, you're probably trans" and "you don't need a reason to transition" and that "gender-affirming care should be freely available and not gatekept because gender self-determination is a human right and key part of autonomy" (paraphrasing because I can't be assed to read that shit again). The difference between a man who wears makeup and a trans-identified man who wears makeup is just a lot of useless inward self-centered rumination and the declaration of "I am a woman". And if he says "maybe I'm a woman"? Then he's nonbinary.
Even if the people insisting that troons were biologically female were outliers, at least a handful of those outliers are very prominent, which drastically changes things. The majority of people will believe something if it's from someone they trust, if it sounds smart enough, or if it aligns with their own personal beliefs and/or the beliefs of their herd. See how one sports-winning tranny, Veronica Ivy, goes on a tv show and shits out "I am a biological female because I'm biological and I identify as female". Then someone like Erin Reed, who is both a prominent transgender activist journalist and married to an elected transgender US state representative, says it too (with slightly smarter, but still incorrect reasoning):
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while various activist groups (and doctors!) claim that there's not any difference between male and female. Eventually it all trickles down until the rest of the group is fully saturated with this rhetorical fat. This is from the recent controversy about the spa that had a single monthly "cultural and religious" female-only night, for women who couldn't be naked in front of males:
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This might end up getting tangly, but ask him to define exactly what a "gender identity" is, what it actually is if it's both separate from sex and also not sexist stereotypes, while also somehow being tangentially connected to ever-changing still sexist modern sex stereotypes, and how it meshes with other things trans people crow about like "gender isn't real, so you can do what you want" and "gender-nonconforming trans people" like feminine trans boys or butch trans women. Maybe make him go through the gender dysphoria bible or other "am I trans?" guides made by trans people, and then ask him if he would qualify as a woman/nonbinary at the end. It's a bit off-topic to your post, but Inauthentic Selves is also a read I would recommend to anybody, the "What is transgenderism?" section has a nice breakdown on what medical and activist groups consider valid transition criteria (specifically for children).
As for everything else, he did message me just now and I'll try to send him a few of the links listed above.
UPDATE: Good grief its a waste of time. I gave him the examples you've given and he states this still isn't the majority of trans people and that I'm still using a tiny minority to make the majority look crazy. Even though Erin Reed is one of the most popular transgender activist online and nobody calls him out. Not even other big transgender activists like Alex, Zinnia Jones, Colin Montgomerie, etc. He can't link me anyone who has ever made a thread, reddit post, or comment on Reed's posts calling out his lie that he's a "biological woman". He wants me to show him evidence that most trans people agree with Reed's comment as if I can give him a poll of whether trans people believe Erin is a biological woman. This goes back into the problem with him. If a lot of trans people all over the internet are posting that they're biologically the same as women or that HRT and surgery does this for them, and there's no one calling them out, how does he expect anyone to believe that this isn't the majority of trans people? We have the many threads on the stinkditch documenting things that many trans people have said despite being a tiny minority. Even for argument's sake lets say what he states is true and that all of these trans people are a minority of trans people, there have been 1000s of trans people who have been documented stating pseudoscience, and other batshit crazy things. that alone shows that there are at least a portion of trans people who at least believe in crazy shit even setting aside those like Buck and Blair White.
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