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"While I can understand why some individuals might feel uneasy about trans people (as we challenge taken-for-granted assumptions and social norms), I’ve had a difficult time wrapping my brain around how anyone could become so obsessed and irrationally paranoid about our existence."
This is where I get stuck as well. WHY would anyone care how someone they don't know defines their own gender? If there is a deviant in this scenario, it's def not the trans person.
@juliaserano I've been saying variants of this to friends for awhile. "Gender ideology" is such a sloppy-sounding, vague phrase. I didn't know where it came from but I could tell it was an exonym thrust upon an amorphous made-up enemy. And you put this in a much more articulate way than I ever have.
@juliaserano "Past attempts to intentionally raise children as the other sex [...] failed miserably — this indicates that most cis people likely have a deep-seated gender identity too" — I am interested in whether good evidence exists for estimating the percentage of people who have a strong innate gender identity. Is it really "most", or only "some"? We should expect people to fall on a spectrum from weak to strong gender identity, but can we say with any confidence where the bell curve goes?
@apm77 I don't think there's any good estimates for this, but I think such ppl do exist – see this video & the "yellow dot" at the 45 minute mark (the whole passage is from 26 to 48 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZymYiwoRoC0
I may write about this further in the future...
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