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However, I've seen trans people describe their decision as the culmination of experiences that caused them to feel that way, rather than having had a medical hormone evaluation.
If it's merely a matter of hormone imbalance, why not take the same kind of hormone therapy regimen that people take for other issues?
I wouldn’t say disgust. Although man is responsible for the fall, God’s punishment is to be instructive. God set limits on us by making us age and die. God called what he created very good and that includes male and female during creation week.
Now I could always be wrong on this, maybe it could happen that a male ends up with a brain that’s almost like a female. I think it would take careful analysis of specialist(s) to recognize distinction from an actual female brain and one that’s almost like it.
If it was a hormone during a particular developmental stage, then taking that hormone later in life might not have the same effect.
As far as "male" and "female" brains, they're probably 99% the same with small statistical differences. The experiences of being a man or a woman is probably not very different. When you talk about certain social interactions, like romance, sexuality and some platonic dynamics the differences are probably larger, but overall, I don't think there is some static ever presence of feeling like a "man" or a "woman".
I wouldn't say that. I don't think trans people are trans because of some experience they had. It could be something like some hormone was produced in sufficient quantities, that kind of thing. Or their bodies aren't sufficiently receptive to a hormone.
Genetics then. I don't agree with standpoint epistemology and the idea that your opinion on a topic isn't relevant if you don't belong to the group the topic is about....
I have a quote from Answers in Genesis. An article called, A Fresh Look at Human-Chimp DNA SimilarityWell, heck, our DNA is 99% the same as a chimpanzee's, too, but that one percent appears to make a huge difference.
A collection can have a lot of components, or just a few components. A collection can have rigid categories, or variable categories. Your distinction is irrelevant.Here's why this is a bad analogy....
"Things that make up an atom" is a pretty exclusive category.
It is a suggestion because we're talking about picking a definition for a word.The word "let" here makes it sound like a suggestion instead of a description of what categorically belongs under the term "gender identity". I assumed it was a suggestion
It's useful because it segregates all the stuff that doesn't matter from all the stuff that actually might in some contexts.because so far....you make it sound like anything could be considered under the category of gender identity. This isn't a useful category for describing anything if that's the case.
Uh-huh....The reason why I wanted to avoid these roles and norms is because they can be part of either sex's identity and wouldn't require any medical or social transitioning.
Now you're starting to get it. You don't think most people agree though, do you? Do you think it's only woke folk that connect a fondness for pink and dolls with biological sex?In other words, if little 6yo Jimmy likes the color pink and plays with dolls....he can do those things as a boy.
There isn’t anything inherently wrong with liking the color pink. What’s not okay is to then get a pink dress for a boy. Or if a boy likes dolls it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to get him a doll.Now you're starting to get it. You don't think most people agree though, do you? Do you think it's only woke folk that connect a fondness for pink and dolls with biological sex?
There isn’t anything inherently wrong with liking the color pink. What’s not okay is to then get a pink dress for a boy. Or if a boy likes dolls it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to get him a doll.
But what if the boy likes a pink dress to wear in the summer because it is cool.There isn’t anything inherently wrong with liking the color pink. What’s not okay is to then get a pink dress for a boy. Or if a boy likes dolls it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to get him a doll.
I suppose dolls aren’t always made specifically for girls, but a lot of them are made for girls. About the other thing, I don’t affirm of cross dressing.But what if the boy likes a pink dress to wear in the summer because it is cool.
If the like what they like and it doesn't harm anything, get them the doll or the dress. What is the big deal?
I suppose dolls aren’t always made specifically for girls, but a lot of them are made for girls. About the other thing, I don’t affirm of cross dressing.
All I meant was that it doesn’t sound like a good idea to offer a doll made for girls, to give to a boy. I’m not intending to be legalistic. However when it comes to cross dressing, that should be an off-limits thing.I had a GI Joe doll as a kid. One of the original 12-inch dolls that were the same scale as the Ken and Barbie dolls. I was always pretty much convinced GI Joe could beat Ken's time with Barbie.
Who said anything about crossdressing, he just likes dresses when it is hot.I suppose dolls aren’t always made specifically for girls, but a lot of them are made for girls. About the other thing, I don’t affirm of cross dressing.
Yeah but boys tend to be more rough, so it’s better that they play with an action figure instead. Otherwise they will ruin their sister’s doll and will have to get a spanking for it!Who said anything about crossdressing, he just likes dresses when it is hot.
And dolls are early action figures, tools for a child's imagination and play.
Dude, I don't know how you rase your kids, and it is not any of my business. But the point I was making was buttoning holing a child in a role limits them. My kid likes dresses and explosions, plushies and Nerf guns.Yeah but boys tend to be more rough, so it’s better that they play with an action figure instead. Otherwise they will ruin their sister’s doll and will have to get a spanking for it!
I’m not actually a father, I was only supposing what it would be like to parent. I don’t think plushies are bad. About dresses, maybe you don’t see the harm because you don’t hold to a biblical worldview. But I think there used to be a time in history when the secular world frowned upon crossdressing. But you say, “likes dresses when it is hot” to distinguish from crossdressing. I’m not sure what that means. Maybe you mean to let him explore, to use his imagination. I think one good way to help develop the imagination is to read classic stories or fables.Dude, I don't know how you rase your kids, and it is not any of my business. But the point I was making was buttoning holing a child in a role limits them. My kid likes dresses and explosions, plushies and Nerf guns.
I don't see why we should limit them in things that interested them.
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