A Transgender Atheist Army For The Antichrist

A Transgender Atheist Army For The Antichrist Nov 29, 2020 22:04:48 GMT

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Post by gw on Nov 29, 2020 22:04:48 GMT

Nov 29, 2020 19:16:15 GMT The Lost One said:

Nov 28, 2020 6:39:03 GMT gw said:

It's not a scientific idea as much as an existential one.

One can make a scientific argument for it but it really depends how you define gender in the first place which is obviously beyond the purview of science. Is gender just a matter of chromosomes? Well then you can't change gender. But if you define gender more broadly to include appearance, genitalia, clothing, behaviours etc then all these things can indeed be changed and there are strong reasons for preferring that definition of gender (we can't tell someone's chromosomes by looking at them).

There's also scientific analysis to suggest transgender people exhibit brain patterns more typical of the gender they claim to be.

Well if scientists can determine that someone with Klinefelter's syndrome is a male then why can't they define what gender is? I heard but forgot about the brain patterns being different in at least some of the cases. According to a Scientific American article there are different studies with different conclusions on transgender people's brains. One said that they're more like the brain of the cisgendered brains of their decided gender, one says that they're in between, and one says that there's unique brain characteristics shared by transgender people.

My view was based off of chromosomes and the ability to procreate. I hadn't taken into account the prenatal development and how it shapes individuals closer towards one sex's characteristics and the other. I think that the author of the article has too many preconceptions when they say "Simply put, the idea of a sexual binary isn't scientifically useful and nowhere is this more obvious than in the brain." There may be many characteristics that can be shared between males and females but they still have different chromosomes and different gonads and reproductive roles. I think that if they made a distinction between procreation roles and resemblance to others in hormones and the like, there may be a case but I still think that we should distinguish between their brain and body's behavior and their sexual capabilities.