This post is well-written, thoughtful, genuinely interesting, and articulates a theory that may be very helpful to some trans or questioning people.
I strongly disagree with some of the main peri-factual claims. In particular, I think there is confounding of ASD and being trans.
It likely perpetuates epistemically shallow attitudes of suspicion towards trans peoples’ cognitive health, ability to function rationally, and introspect accurately.
The author is clearly going through a hard time emotionally.
The attitudes of (3) had a negative effect on me personally (I’m trans). So (2) and (3) make we want to post criticisms, but I also feel a lot of warmth and compassion towards the author (i hope that comes through and i REALLY hope this doesn’t sound patronizing), and I don’t want to hurt her. So I feel pretty torn.
Mainly I just want to say that this post underrates medical theories of transness. I’m deeply into this, and I think the frontier here is significantly further along than most people realize. But the political situation is so bad, it’s not safe to share our knowledge openly.
I would bet with 80% confidence that current knowledge (iykyk) is already enough to develop a genomic screen for gender dysphoria with enough significance to be medically useful.
This post is well-written, thoughtful, genuinely interesting, and articulates a theory that may be very helpful to some trans or questioning people.
I strongly disagree with some of the main peri-factual claims. In particular, I think there is confounding of ASD and being trans.
It likely perpetuates epistemically shallow attitudes of suspicion towards trans peoples’ cognitive health, ability to function rationally, and introspect accurately.
The author is clearly going through a hard time emotionally.
The attitudes of (3) had a negative effect on me personally (I’m trans). So (2) and (3) make we want to post criticisms, but I also feel a lot of warmth and compassion towards the author (i hope that comes through and i REALLY hope this doesn’t sound patronizing), and I don’t want to hurt her. So I feel pretty torn.
Mainly I just want to say that this post underrates medical theories of transness. I’m deeply into this, and I think the frontier here is significantly further along than most people realize. But the political situation is so bad, it’s not safe to share our knowledge openly.
I would bet with 80% confidence that current knowledge (iykyk) is already enough to develop a genomic screen for gender dysphoria with enough significance to be medically useful.