Isn’t it simply factually unknown whether or not there’s such a thing as men growing up with brains that develop like female brains? Or is that not a crux for anything?
Focusing on brains seems like the wrong question to me. Brains matter due to their effect on psychology, and psychology is easier to observe than neurology.
Even if psychology is similar in some ways, it may not be similar in the ways that matter though, and in fact the ways that matter need not be restricted to psychology. Even if trans women are psychologically the same as cis women, trans women in women’s sports is still a contentious issue.
There are some fairly big ways in which trans women are not similar to cis women though, for instance trans women tend to be mostly sexually attracted to women, whereas cis women tend to be mostly sexually attracted to men. Whether this is policy-relevant is I guess up to you, but it certainly has a lot of high-impact implications.
Possibly this explanation helps? As in basically he’s been focusing on the first step to a multi-step argument, though it’s sort of unclear what the last step(s) are supposed to add up to.
Focusing on brains seems like the wrong question to me. Brains matter due to their effect on psychology, and psychology is easier to observe than neurology.
Even if psychology is similar in some ways, it may not be similar in the ways that matter though, and in fact the ways that matter need not be restricted to psychology. Even if trans women are psychologically the same as cis women, trans women in women’s sports is still a contentious issue.
There are some fairly big ways in which trans women are not similar to cis women though, for instance trans women tend to be mostly sexually attracted to women, whereas cis women tend to be mostly sexually attracted to men. Whether this is policy-relevant is I guess up to you, but it certainly has a lot of high-impact implications.
Ok. (I continue to not know what the basic original object-level disagreement is!)
Possibly this explanation helps? As in basically he’s been focusing on the first step to a multi-step argument, though it’s sort of unclear what the last step(s) are supposed to add up to.