> Trans people feel (often from a very young age) that their gender does not match their biological sex, I think that’s true of many (most?) people who identif

> Trans people feel (often from a very young age) that their gender does not match their biological sex, I think that’s true of many (most?) people who identify as trans, but not necessarily all of them. I’m sure there must be some trans person out there (probably more than just one) who disagrees with your statement with respect to themselves > they feel is their intrinsic gender identity. Do all people who identify as trans believe in the concept of “intrinsic gender identity”? I think that’s a very widespread belief but I doubt it is universal. I’m not convinced a person has to believe in such a concept in order to be trans > a function of your brain wiring (which I suppose is a subset of your hardware) Some people definitely have “cross-sex” brain characteristics (various neurobiological features more commonly found in the opposite sex). Definitely these characteristics are more common in trans people-suggesting many cases of being trans likely do have a significant biological component. However, not all trans people have these features. Of course, we can’t exclude they may have other “cross-sex” features we don’t know about yet; but it also seems possible they actually don’t, and while for some (most?) trans individuals biology plays a major role in causation, for others maybe it doesn’t Furthermore, we also know there is a correlation between these brain features and cishomosexuality. It isn’t clear if (those) trans people and (those) cishomosexual people have some unknown difference in their neurobiology, or a shared neurobiology which can develop in different directions due to random chance or social factors