People say trans girls can’t get pregnant, but I don’t believe that and I’m happy to test the hypothesis.
Fact: 99% of people stop plapping right before finding the secret to Trans pregnancy
Well if my genes wanted me to procreate I’d have the equipment I need to get pregnant. Clearly I’m just supposed to be a good aunt for my much more productive sisters’ children.
Lmaooo dude fuck these genes anyway. The men in my family are all either shitty and abusive or depressed/dead from depression. Let’s gooooo
Not just society. People with differing gender identities think differently, while hormones also influence how you think. Testosterone makes all people more aggressive and people with more masc identities think differently to those with less masc identities. It’s a spectrum with multiple dimensions that all contribute to one’s internal range of comfortable identities. Who fucking knows the specifics, but that’s probably the general picture.
Gender identity kind of needs to be based in biology rather than culture, because otherwise conversion therapy would work and social contagion theories would hold water. Queerness is based in biology, but scientific labels of normality are also socially constructed tools of power that can be used for abuse. Queer theory and evolution are not incompatible. Evolutionary science doesn’t inherently invalidate nonbinary gender identities, and doesn’t validate most aspects of binary sex. Only sex cells evolved to be inherently binary, everything else varies based on incentives rather than rules.
Talking about biology and evolution in regards to gender feels so icky to us because it has been used as a tool for oppression so much in the past. It’s like race science used to justify oppression of non white people. They use the authority of science to say we don’t exist, refuse to accurately document our experiences, apply cisheteronormative assumptions even when they don’t make sense, and claim that we’re all freaks of nature instead of nature working as intended.
Just like how racial minorities have taken evolutionary theory from white supremacists as an authoritative tool of oppression, we need to take it back from transphobes and transmeds that want to invalidate and abuse. They assume that we should model our lives after nature, but we really shouldn’t. Nature thrives on death and suffering. It isn’t enviable; we just need to figure out how to live in it.
I think your point is confused. You seem to be saying that gender and biology are able to be linked and the issue is that the mode of linking them stems from an oppressive system. Which, I agree it’s bad to link them in the way society does. But your last paragraph says racial minorities have “taken” evolutionary theories from white supremacists which seems to imply that there is an evolutionary theory that says some racial minority is superior to others and the issue is just that white people think it’s them. Linking it to your other point you seem to think that some expression of gender within our current context is superior to some other.
I feel that it’s pretty clear that things like gender and race are entirely socially constructed. Saying otherwise places an evolutionary imperative on the conclusion.
Nature is not kind to women, but men aren’t exactly fortunate. Evolution incentivizes a solid percentage of men to die prematurely via testosterone induced aggression in their early adulthood. They generally don’t form the same sort of support systems as women, meaning that they’re often alone in their darkest moments. There are other factors, but those probably play the biggest role in their suffering.
It’s such a lonely existence. I wish I could offer them advice, but I don’t fully understand what they’re going through. I’ve walked in their shoes for 2 decades, so while I know how they suffer, I don’t actually know what would make them happy. Men like being men and I cannot relate to that.
I wish HRT was more accessible 3:
The silly cycle :3