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You have, at best, a high school level understanding of biology. The current scientific and medical consensus absolutely supports the idea of gender as a more c
by Pfhreak 6y ago
You have, at best, a high school level understanding of biology. The current scientific and medical consensus absolutely supports the idea of gender as a more complex system then which parts you have. Everything you've said in the above comment is incorrect.
First, you are not born male or female. There are many, many physical presentations that we loosely bucket and assign babies into.
Second, sex organs don't determine gender. Gender is a social construct.
Third, being trans is not a mental disease. The medical community has moved beyond that definition a long time ago. Body dysphoria is also not present in all trans people.
I know you are speaking from a place of ignorance, but "biology 101" is an extremely surface level understanding of biology but even introductory biology describes the concept of sex characteristics being not being binary. And most introductory biology books will say nothing about gender at all, because it's not a biological concept.
So, your comment is offensive because it claims to be speaking from a place of knowledge -- using biology or science as some sort of evidence of your correctness -- when in fact the opposite is true.
You would know this if you were actually interested in learning about the science, biology, and sociology. So the only explanations I have are either you have a woefully outdated understanding of science, or you are being deliberately transphobic.
- blitz_skull 6y ago“Consensus” implies most agree on a given topic, whereas “narrative” means what’s currently being pushed as an agenda. I think you meant to say the latter, because any medical professional who cares about the well-being of their patients agrees that transgenderism is a mental illness to be treated, not a new breakthrough in human psychology. Pretty sure doctors still adjust medication dosages based on if you’re a male or female. You still develop different bone structure and muscle density based on your biological sex that you inherently have at birth. Again your terminology here is incorrect. You say “assigned” but that implies that doctors are walking around with a penis stamp or vagina stamp handing out whatever they feel like to babies, which would be laughable if it wasn’t so dangerous to actually believe. I’d be more than willing to consider your viewpoint if you could provide scientific, peer-reviewed sources that support your claims, but thus far your arrogance and emotional beliefs about a topic you clearly know nothing about are evident.
- Minor49er 6y agoUnfortunately, you're trying to reason with someone who has abandoned reason in exchange for an impossible ideology and a strong cognitive dissonance.
- dang 6y agoPlease stop taking HN threads further into flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 6y agoIn addition to breaking the site guidelines with flamewar (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26527725 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26527725 above), you crossed into personal attack here. That also is a bannable offense on Hacker News. No more of this, please. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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