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I didn’t say it is a neurological issue. I say it could be one, and it needs to be investigated as to whether it is or not.
You're splitting hairs, and you're still dead wrong. It's the same as suggesting that people who don't adhere to your chosen religion could have neurological issues, based only on that observation.
The observation is that humans, barring any genetical defects of any kind have one of two sexes: male or female, and they generally feel comfortable with the genitals attached to their bodies. The fact that a very small percentage of people are born differently infers that there might be a root cause because every single thing that happens in our bodies and minds has a biological root.
Religion itself as a set of rules and systems has its origins in response to curiosity, whose biological roots we do not know entirely but could be an evolutionary adaptation. After it satisfies curiosity it also becomes a system for social order.
Do I need to write an essay from every rebuttal you might have? Or can you accept that point blank we should be investigating, if not into the interest of treatment but in the interest of pure knowledge itself why this thing happens?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-redefined-the-idea-of-2-sexes-is-overly-simplistic1/
I’m familiar with this. It doesn’t really contradict what I’m saying. The vast majority of humans are born with either a penis or a vagina, and they feel generally comfortable with what they have and it doesn’t cause them significant psychological distress. It doesn’t matter if they have certain traits of the other sex, in fact I think it’s almost obvious that it will be the case since we are sexless at conception. Therefore we have all the equipment to be either sex. Men with manboobs are everywhere. Most of them might feel self conscious about it due to standards of beauty but usually not in a way that it causes suffering to the same level as gender dysphoria.
In fact I think this article might actually further my point, because if we exist all in a spectrum why would a small percentage of us associate so strongly with one particular gender to the point that not having the primary characteristics of that gender ends up causing significant psychological distress? My view is that a neurological divergence could be responsible for the dysphoria. Or at least that it should be seriously considered and investigated.
That research will never happen under Republicans, I'm fine with that line of thinking imas long as that's not the only one allowed. It's funny you talk that way through as so many cis people would hate to wake up and be the other sex.