I appreciate your comment, and thank you for reading my post :)
I do think what you wrote may be missing the point a bit. The debate is not over whether there is an observable-in-principle physical cause for being trans somewhere in a trans person’s body.
The debate is over whether that cause was itself caused by biology (genes, epigenetics, hormone disruptors in the water, random errors of prenatal neuroendocrine development) or social factors. Because the answer to this question has massive implications for what healthcare should look like for trans people.
Yeah what caused it is definitely still up in the air, although I doubt it’s going to end up as an either/or situation. Even if we can point to social factors as a major cause, how environmental stimulus impacts people differently still depends on their preexisting biology so it’s going to be a mix there regardless. Just how much? I don’t know.
Because the answer to this question has massive implications for what healthcare should look like for trans people.
Now I’m very libertarian so I don’t think it should impact much at all for adults. Trans people already have the freedom of choice and they’re using it. In terms of bad healthcare decisions, there’s a lot worse going on where people can even straight up die from foregoing useful stuff in favor of magic herbs and other snake oil so it’s not even a major priority if we were to crack down on bad healthcare. Which to be clear, I’m against doing even for that worse stuff.
Regarding children is definitely a harder choice but that gets into the messier topic of child freedom vs parental authority.
I appreciate your comment, and thank you for reading my post :)
I do think what you wrote may be missing the point a bit. The debate is not over whether there is an observable-in-principle physical cause for being trans somewhere in a trans person’s body.
The debate is over whether that cause was itself caused by biology (genes, epigenetics, hormone disruptors in the water, random errors of prenatal neuroendocrine development) or social factors. Because the answer to this question has massive implications for what healthcare should look like for trans people.
Yeah what caused it is definitely still up in the air, although I doubt it’s going to end up as an either/or situation. Even if we can point to social factors as a major cause, how environmental stimulus impacts people differently still depends on their preexisting biology so it’s going to be a mix there regardless. Just how much? I don’t know.
Now I’m very libertarian so I don’t think it should impact much at all for adults. Trans people already have the freedom of choice and they’re using it. In terms of bad healthcare decisions, there’s a lot worse going on where people can even straight up die from foregoing useful stuff in favor of magic herbs and other snake oil so it’s not even a major priority if we were to crack down on bad healthcare. Which to be clear, I’m against doing even for that worse stuff.
Regarding children is definitely a harder choice but that gets into the messier topic of child freedom vs parental authority.
yup definitely a mix! appreciate your perspective and going through transition has made me more of a libertarian on health issues.