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The strains of third wave feminism that seems to have become a part of the ideology of a large portion of the modern left seem to depend very strongly on the ar

The strains of third wave feminism that seems to have become a part of the ideology of a large portion of the modern left seem to depend very strongly on the argument "Men and women are the same. Therefore sexism and bias is unjustifiable both morally and scientifically." It also fits very nicely into the "gender as a social construct" theory of intersectional feminism and LGBT ideologies. In some respects they are correct that gender is a social construct, and also that "biological sex" isn't as clear cut as it first appears when you begin to consider edge cases. However, when you begin to think about HRT for trans people, I think the waters start to get murkier for their particular ideology. I'm not sure if they've found a way to reconcile HRT with the "blank slate" argument, but I haven't heard it. So forgive me if there is one.

DC-3 8y ago
An analogy to reconcile gender identity and the blank slate hypothesis - if we analogize our brains at birth to brand new cars, each with the exact same components and performance figures, then gender is simply the color that our cars are painted. A trans person is therefore simply a person with a blue-car brain in the biological body more usually associated with a red-car brain (or vice-versa). Our brains are all functionally equivalent, and gender is simply an associated property of the brain with no effect on form or function. I don't personally agree with this line of reasoning (it fails to explain how people undergoing HRT often find themselves tending in personality to become more like the stereotype of their gender identity) but it does, in my view, hold water to an extent.
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