It’s very nitpicky of me, but towards the end of the article, they discussed various factors hypothetisized to “cause transgender identity,” and I hate that framing. Being trans doesn’t need a root cause to justify treating us with respect and affording us human rights and access to health care that improves our lives. Nothing made me a woman. It’s just who I am.
From another publication I would have said, it’s the same recycled bigotry trying to paint LGBT identities as being something wrong that needs to be cured - either a (wrong) choice, or a medical condition, etc.
From this publication I would have expected greater care to avoid phrasing that makes this kind of categorisation.
That touches on a subject a lot of my gay friends talked about with me. Most didn’t want science to find “the gay gene.” They didn’t want there to be any reason for them to be who they are. They just are. They also didn’t want to have something tangible bigots to point to as to why they are “wrong.”
I agree with them, very much so. There is no benefit to this kind of research because it’s based on a false premise to begin with. Gender does not correlate with biology at all. It’s part of who we are as people. There is no cause of transgender identity, and even attempting to find one is flawed. The transgender experience is not universal, and there is a vast amount of differing feelings and experiences amongst even just binary trans people. Any attempts to find a “cause” are really just attempts to find new justifications for gatekeeping trans people or subjecting trans people to conversion therapy.
I am, by and large, against the further reduction of trans experience to a medical one. We aren’t diseased. We are fortunate to live in a time where we can access care that improves our lives tremendously. There is a very real medical component to treating dysphoria. But being transgender is not a disease.
But isn’t this the same situation with other discrimination like racism? There are genes creating the differences we call race, but does that change how we should treat people? Yes, it’s. Problem that’s not solved but at least we know what should happen
It’s very nitpicky of me, but towards the end of the article, they discussed various factors hypothetisized to “cause transgender identity,” and I hate that framing. Being trans doesn’t need a root cause to justify treating us with respect and affording us human rights and access to health care that improves our lives. Nothing made me a woman. It’s just who I am.
From another publication I would have said, it’s the same recycled bigotry trying to paint LGBT identities as being something wrong that needs to be cured - either a (wrong) choice, or a medical condition, etc.
From this publication I would have expected greater care to avoid phrasing that makes this kind of categorisation.
That touches on a subject a lot of my gay friends talked about with me. Most didn’t want science to find “the gay gene.” They didn’t want there to be any reason for them to be who they are. They just are. They also didn’t want to have something tangible bigots to point to as to why they are “wrong.”
I agree with them, very much so. There is no benefit to this kind of research because it’s based on a false premise to begin with. Gender does not correlate with biology at all. It’s part of who we are as people. There is no cause of transgender identity, and even attempting to find one is flawed. The transgender experience is not universal, and there is a vast amount of differing feelings and experiences amongst even just binary trans people. Any attempts to find a “cause” are really just attempts to find new justifications for gatekeeping trans people or subjecting trans people to conversion therapy.
I am, by and large, against the further reduction of trans experience to a medical one. We aren’t diseased. We are fortunate to live in a time where we can access care that improves our lives tremendously. There is a very real medical component to treating dysphoria. But being transgender is not a disease.
But isn’t this the same situation with other discrimination like racism? There are genes creating the differences we call race, but does that change how we should treat people? Yes, it’s. Problem that’s not solved but at least we know what should happen
last i checked, the root cause for being trans was “being trans” but fuck if i know, i’m not a scientist lmao.
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