Advice please. I have a young, woke female doctor in my social circle and she lives with someone who's declared themselves non-binary. My contact is struggling to be both a feminist and maintain a woke transgender-is-based-in-biology stance. Time after time they've raised things that they say prove that transgender is a 'thing' and I'm just a horrid bigot and time after time I've politely refuted with rational feminist argument.
Their latest response is to quote the WHO and its Genetic Components of Sex and Gender material, which mentions common genetic mutations. They say this must be the root of transgenderism and proves that gender dysphoria is based in biology. The WHO goes on to say at the end of that section that gender is a social construct and adds that some societies allow for more than two genders — so the WHO is effectively linking genetic mutation and transgender.
www.who.int/genomics/gender/en/index1.html
I've replied asking what evidence they or the WHO can offer to show that those with only one X or Y chromosome or whatever are more likely to identify as transgender than people with a standard XX/ XY genome — and they've come back asking me to show evidence that transgenderism isn't genetically based. I seem to remember someone at some point mentioning that genetic tests had been carried out on young people presenting at the Tavistock and none had chromosomal abnormalities. Was I dreaming/ did I make that up?
Any other arguments I can use to put a stop to this? I'm being sucked down their wormhole.
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Shedbuilder · 04/05/2020 10:22
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