Character Discussion Is Yamato a male or female?
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I'm addressing the three of you at the same time because you all went for a probability argument that I find to be pointless. It's irrelevant whether something is a minority and doesn't represent the norm —it still exists and therefore we must take it into account in order to paint a full picture of an issue. If we do the contrary and rule out the cases which won't fit the male-female dichotomy and/or show sex-gender incongruity, then we will be staying at a surface understanding of this issue, which is utterly antiscientific.
Trans population hardly reaches the 0,5%, if I recall correctly. It's minoritarian by definition, but it doesn't mean their condition is less legitimate, less real, less important; which is why it's still researched by a wide range of fields from neuroanatomy to endocrinology, not just social sciences as one of you insists on stating. Anything other than fully understanding why these people exist and what defines gender and sex beyond what's "under their pants" is indeed basic biology, which I repeat, is bullshit because no scientific field is basic but filled with nuances, exceptions, rarities... that aren't less meaningful than the norm just because they are less.
So, to put it simple, I'm not overstating the importance of anything. I'm stating the fact that people beyond XX and XY exist; the fact that other factors apart from what's under your pants must be and are in fact being studied in order to understand sex and gender; the fact that people exist who experience an incongruity between their sex and gender which is defining their lives in a very obstaculizing way yet can't simply choose not to be like that. And I couldn't care less whether it's 50% or 0,5% of the population because reality isn't about porcentages but phenomena.
And as long as one piece of phenomena contradicts what was previously established about a construct, then science must address it to redefine such construct. Just like we won't defend that swans are white birds just because black swans are a negligible oddity.
Trans population hardly reaches the 0,5%, if I recall correctly. It's minoritarian by definition, but it doesn't mean their condition is less legitimate, less real, less important; which is why it's still researched by a wide range of fields from neuroanatomy to endocrinology, not just social sciences as one of you insists on stating. Anything other than fully understanding why these people exist and what defines gender and sex beyond what's "under their pants" is indeed basic biology, which I repeat, is bullshit because no scientific field is basic but filled with nuances, exceptions, rarities... that aren't less meaningful than the norm just because they are less.
So, to put it simple, I'm not overstating the importance of anything. I'm stating the fact that people beyond XX and XY exist; the fact that other factors apart from what's under your pants must be and are in fact being studied in order to understand sex and gender; the fact that people exist who experience an incongruity between their sex and gender which is defining their lives in a very obstaculizing way yet can't simply choose not to be like that. And I couldn't care less whether it's 50% or 0,5% of the population because reality isn't about porcentages but phenomena.
And as long as one piece of phenomena contradicts what was previously established about a construct, then science must address it to redefine such construct. Just like we won't defend that swans are white birds just because black swans are a negligible oddity.
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People like him are the same guys who claim that mental health does not exist and that mental illness is the persons own "fault". More often than not, people with this mindset have repressed mental issues themselves and think they can simply make them go away by refusing to acknowledge the issues are there in the first place.
There is a choice that LGBT people can make to avoid all these: they can put on an act, lie to themselves about who they are and deny their very being.
This is what those "anti-gay therapies" are aiming at.
A gay/lesbian/transgender person who outwardly puts on the act of being a straight/cis individual may seem "cured" or "normal" to unperceptive people, who then believe their "cure" or "talking sense into them" worked.
This is a very common misconception especially but not exclusively among older people in western countries.
There is a choice that LGBT people can make to avoid all these: they can put on an act, lie to themselves about who they are and deny their very being.
This is what those "anti-gay therapies" are aiming at.
A gay/lesbian/transgender person who outwardly puts on the act of being a straight/cis individual may seem "cured" or "normal" to unperceptive people, who then believe their "cure" or "talking sense into them" worked.
This is a very common misconception especially but not exclusively among older people in western countries.
@TheAncientCenturion make a thread
