Not that I disagree with you, but to devil's advocate, I think that it's reasonable to say that human thought as we experience it now is pretty tightly linked to gender and sexual difference.
I think that would be very arguable, and while my experience suggests that any inherent systemic effect on modes of thinking based on gender/sexual difference is negligible compared to, and swamped by, other differences between individuals, it seems entirely likely that my preferences in terms of the people I tend to get on with are introducing severe sample bias.
I guess "reasonable to say" is different from "unquestionably true" and that difference is important, but exploring things through that lens feels useful.
No argument there.
Are these folks changing gender identity at the same time as they're changing their bodies?
I am inclined to think some of them think of themselves as doing so and some do not, and there may well be people with strong attachments to theoretical models inclining either way.
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Date: 2013-02-12 08:08 pm (UTC)I think that would be very arguable, and while my experience suggests that any inherent systemic effect on modes of thinking based on gender/sexual difference is negligible compared to, and swamped by, other differences between individuals, it seems entirely likely that my preferences in terms of the people I tend to get on with are introducing severe sample bias.
I guess "reasonable to say" is different from "unquestionably true" and that difference is important, but exploring things through that lens feels useful.
No argument there.
Are these folks changing gender identity at the same time as they're changing their bodies?
I am inclined to think some of them think of themselves as doing so and some do not, and there may well be people with strong attachments to theoretical models inclining either way.