Questions for transexuals

>>7859848
In order of your questions:

Not "just like" but more similar than cis people.
It's more about identity than behavior.
Yes, but people argue about that on this board all the time.

>>7859848
Our brains aren't just like the opposite sex.

Straight transsexuals have brains like extremely gay members of their birth sex.

Lesbian/gay transsexuals have brains like their birth sex with a flipped sexual orientation.

It's a lot more receptive to estrogen.

>>7859888
you're retarded

>>7860161
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>>7859848
>How are sure your brain is just like that of the opposite biological sex?
I don't think it matters. For me it's all about finally becoming comfortable with my body.

But HRT does feminize/masculinize the brain, and as you begin to gain more experience as the opposite sex, this new socialization will change how you behave too (Those of us that actually make a real effort to blend in, anyway).

So yeah I would say I'm most likely more in line with the average female, but it doesn't really matter either way.

>>7859848
I'm sure that my brain hate being a male body, and I would probably kill myself if I would have to age while testosterone wrecks my body. And no, people who acts like the opposite sex but aren't trans are actually rare. Being a feminine gay men is very different than being feminine.

For you last questions, cis gays still have male brains, and cis lesbians still have female brains, so it shouldn't be different for trans people.

>>7860325
How has how you behave changed?

>>7860326
The brain of feminie gay men must be relatively alike to a woman's brain.

>>7860353
It is. Most people on they board just make up whatever they believe and then claim it's the science.

>>7860353
No, it's not. Thinking that feminine gay men want to be women is simply retarded.

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>>7860328
Not that anon, but personally I've found myself become a lot more timid and polite. More submissive. More openly emotional including body language. More caring and comforting of others, more needing of being cared for and protected. Won't run to catch up with the train, just wait for the next one. Used to swear instinctively, now avoid it because it sounds ugly. Won't speak my mind, but wait for my turn.

Some are stereotypes, but all happened unintentionally.

>>7859848
Sexual attraction and self identification are separate things.
I tried everything possible for 25 years.
Nothing makes me feel better.
Being myself and taking hormones improved me immediately.
But I still don't feel fixed.
I still experience a great deal of pain in my identity.
Nobody can help me short of replacing my body.
I don't know what I did to be punished so severely.

>>7860328
For socialization:

My interactions with both genders have drastically changed. There is more of a camaraderie with women and more distance between me and men now.

I feel like it's way harder to get anybody to take me seriously anymore, so I kind of just gave up and am no where near as assertive as I was before.

I'm way more cautious of my surroundings now. Becoming physically weaker definitely impacted that.

For more hormonally related things, I'm no longer a slave to my sex drive, l'm not as aggressive anymore, and when I experience attraction, it's not as "visual" as before. For example, I'm no where near as attracted to visual stimuli such as porn anymore.

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I have a masculine physical body, but a brain that's possibly feminized. I can't understand why I hate being a male so much and wish to be a girl. I'm not content with myself, my body, or the life that I was given. I realize that I'm not a normal human being. Normal people obviously don't experience gender dysphoria, but why do I do? Cisgender boys don't feel upset for being born as males, nor do they feel the desire to be a girl (or the opposite gender). I can't escape the dreadful feeling that my birth was an accident, or that I'm a defective individual. I'd do anything to just be happy with myself and not endure suffering because of something trivial like gender.

I wish I was either:
>born as a cisgender girl with a feminine body from the start, if I really do have a feminine brain
or
>have a masculine brain without any side effects of gender dysphoria, if I had to be born as a male

Am I the only person who thinks this way?
>inb4 "just be a femboy anon"
Fuck off! I'm not a limp-wristed little sissy, you degenerates! Men are supposed to be men; women are supposed to be women. Anyone else with a different identity is a tumblr-tier SJW special snowflake to be brutally honest here.

>>7859848
Questions for trans people indeed.

What do you want from a legal/policy standpoint? Is it just the bathroom issue? I don't understand why your movement is so vocal or why it is dominating the media. What other rights and regulations would you like to see enacted? Marriage equality? Anti-discrimination? Workplace rights? Would that level the field and bring the equality you desire?

>>7859848
>How are sure your brain is just like that of the opposite biological sex?
I don't; neurology is a young field and we aren't anywhere close to answering these questions. Either way, it doesn't matter. I've been diagnosed with a condition that experts agree is best treated through transition. If science hurts someone's sensibilities, it's not my problem.
>Many people behave kind of like the opposite sex but they identify as their birth gender, why don't you?
Behaviour and identity are two different things. Behaviour is learned and not solely based on gender. A lot of the questions in this vein could be answered and a lot of grievances people have with transgenderism could be lifted if people just took a 101 class in cultural anthropology.
>Do you believe lesbian MtFs and gay FtMs have brain like that of the opposite biological sex too, at least partially?
Gender and orientation being tied but not wholly dependent on one another, this question also can''t be answered with the scientific world's current understanding of human biology. Sexuality is understood only through hypothesis and speculation even by its foremost experts and anyone who tries to give you a straight answer to this question is either highly misguided and/or misinformed or simply lying.

>>7860426
Cis boys are happy living boys lives and becoming men. That's the only difference. You want a different life and have different beauty standards for your own body.

>>7860426
You may have a feminized brain, but it's impossible to say how much with modern technology.

>>7860552
For your information, I'm from Canada but much of your questions seems related to current american politics. However you seems genuinely asking so I'll make my possible to answer.

>What do you want from a legal/policy standpoint?
I think changing the gender of ID cards/birth certificate is what's important. Here it's very easy to do and the question is now set and done, as it should. Nothing bad has happened so far because of it.

>Is it just the bathroom issue?
The bathroom "issue" was just an attempt from the GOP to appeal their most reactionary voter base. It was never an issue before, and it isn't an issue in the rest of the developed world.

>I don't understand why your movement is so vocal or why it is dominating the media.
I don't understand how you cant think the "movement" is dominating the media. However for being vocal, it's probably because of all the discrimination transgender americans are facing. The fact that the american media and public are treating the basic civil right of an already marginalized minority is just completely insane.

>Marriage equality
It's already achieved in most of the first world, and also in the US recently.

>Anti-discrimination? Workplace rights?
Uh yes? How is it any controversial? It makes no sense that anybody loses their home, their job or anything else just for being LGBT.

>Would that level the field and bring the equality you desire?
I guess not endorsing any bigotry is what's fundamentally important?

>>7860552
None of those are important. What we need is total gender blindness in all policies and laws.

>>7860718
T H I S

>>7859848
here is what the actual research is starting to show:
'male' and 'female' brains are slightly a misnomer. neurological sexual dimorphism has more to do with sexual orientation than sex or gender (though still a decent amount to do with the latter two). this is tentative, but is the most likely explanation. you can tell a cis person's sex/gender with 93% accuracy from a scan o certain parts of the brain, and non-coincidentally 93% is vaguely the percentage of the population that is cishet.
trans people who are heterosexual in their transitioned sex have the same brains as gay people of their natal sex before they start hrt. when they start hrt, the remaining androgynous or birth-sex regions change to their transitioned sex.
trans people who are bisexual or homosexual in their transitioned sex do not have that, and their brains generally resemble other heterosexuals of their natal sex, but potentially (further research is needed) are shifted in other ways that are not sexually dimorphic. again, when they take hrt their brains change to that of the transitioned sex.

>>7861106
I expect growing up and developing your orientation causes the dimorphism.

>>7861106
Source?

>>7859848
>How are sure your brain is just like that of the opposite biological sex?

Im going to be 100% honest here Senpai, Its not.
Its similar, just like its got stuff in common with male brains. I think its different from both though. I never really mention this out loud or online because people normally flip their shit and assume my view on this matter has to pertain to them and all trannies which, if you dont believe it, it doesn't.
I dont know. All I have are my experiences and conjecture. Id love to research nurological makeup of transpeople more but Im not a researcher and people who hold the purse strings for medical research dont give a shit about transpeople.

>>7861106
How does does explains the few homosexuals who act more like typical people of their birth sex and the few heterosexuals who act more like typical people of the opposite sex?

>>7861106
>trans people who are bisexual or homosexual in their transitioned sex do not have that, and their brains generally resemble other heterosexuals of their natal sex
Remind me, have blanchardiands EVER used lesbians as controls?

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>>7859848
SHANOAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>7863450
Show me ONE lesbian with AGP.

>>7860658
I don't buy that shit.

>>7868192
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>>7861106
>trans people who are heterosexual in their transitioned sex have the same brains as gay people of their natal sex before they start hrt. when they start hrt, the remaining androgynous or birth-sex regions change to their transitioned sex.
>trans people who are bisexual or homosexual in their transitioned sex do not have that, and their brains generally resemble other heterosexuals of their natal sex, but potentially (further research is needed) are shifted in other ways that are not sexually dimorphic. again, when they take hrt their brains change to that of the transitioned sex.

What about people whose sexuality changes after taking hrt? IE, they were into women before hrt and into men afterwards, or vice versa.

>>7868257
They come under the bisexual group, as do asexuals I think.

>>7859848
A trans person does not have the brain of the "opposite sex". They have the brain of someone undergoing the condition of being trans: someone with a male body who has a seemingly innate need to 1) present physically different in terms of presentation of sexual traits than your birth sex and 2) present physically similar in terms of presentation of sexual traits to those outside your birth sex. To go further in terms of "nature" is impossible; all we can do is contextualize our existence as it is.

The binary of "it's a social construct" and "it's biologically innate" are to an extent "your opinion". There is no such thing as a hard, capital "T' Truth in anything. Not when you furrow down deep enough. There is nothing that can be externally verified in Absolute terms, without a leap of faith. However, while it can't be verified, our internal experience tells us something. It's all we can ever truly know, but we know something. Our projection of Will is what defines and determines our own truth, or our ideology of Self.

Any person I'd consider "tru trans" has always had the same opinions when presented with this thought experiment, no matter if they believed it was a social construct or a biological fact: "If you were born on a remote island, with no concept of language, and no concept of gender or sex, would you still be trans? When puberty hit, would something still feel wrong? Would you feel bad that your breasts were growing? Would you feel bad that coarse, thick hairs were growing out of your body and face? Even if you wouldn't ever know why?"

For myself, the answer is that I would be trans, always. This is the way I am. This is the way others are. I can't state that as fact, but I think that's how most people are going to feel who actually are trans.

>>7868354
Except you can't know what would happen to you in that situation. You can tell yourself you would, but that's just your assumption and unreflected by your real history in which you did see gender roles and female bodies.

>>7868370
No yeah exactly. You can't really know atm. There's nothing but conjecture atm, so you just trust in your own individual Will. You just feel that way. Ultimately that's all you can say. The feelings feel very real and authentic, especially for those of us who've felt it since early childhood.

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>>7859848
It feels like my brain expects my physical body to be male, when its not.
My brains perception of the world, is that i exist in it as a male, even though i can look at my body and tell that self perception is incorrect.
When other people look at me i forget they see a female, seeing female features in the mirror is confusing to me, and i guess it has to do with male/female brain mapping.

>>7868470
I'm very agp and few people would consider me "trutrans", but my feelings are still very real/authentic and date to childhood, though not really early. I've always felt this way as long as I've felt any way.

I can't imagine how it would be possible for me to feel the same if I was always in total isolation though. Maybe I would as much as it would be possible to feel it without any experience of other people.

>>7868541
i suspect a*ps would have even more intense feelings in isolation than hstses, given there's much less of a social component to a*p dysphoria (as also seen in that they're more willing to transition in situations where passing is out of the question)

>>7868556
My agp is very social. I want to be submissive and desired and all sorts of things like that. How could I feel that way in isolation?

Any sexuality is hard to inagine being as normal in isolation.

>>7868541
>Maybe I would as much as it would be possible to feel it without any experience of other people
Yes. I mean, idk what AGP "means". I don't have genital dysphoria but before I transition I used to get off to the thought of being female.

But now that I've transitioned and pass and think of myself as the person I am (A trans person who feels as a girl, whatever that means, and is identified as one by those around them), I actually oddly enough have had some sexual thought of being a reverse-trap transgrill sexually, and I don't even know why.

>>7868599
I've had sexual thoughts of being a reverse trap cisgirl!

What's happened to the getting off to the thought of being female since transition?

>>7868590
it's hard to explain without giving examples, so i'll give my preferred example, the difference between agp and hsts crossdressing:
>an agp will crossdress in her room in secret, maybe stealing her mother's or sister's clothing and makeup, maybe surreptitiously buying her own online. she'll take great pains to hide it, make sure nobody else ever finds out. she might wear female underwear beneath male clothing, but only if she's confident it'll not be seen. she might seek out a relationship where she lives out her want to be the little girl within it, but she'll still present as normative male outside. if she feminizes her physical appearance in any way, it'll be either things that are part of the expanded-phenotype of the male gender norm (e.g. longish hair, often in what i saw one trans girl call a 'dysphoria curlmop') or hidden to the fullest possible extent (e.g. clear nail polish)
>a hsts will wear makeup and feminine clothing out in public and still do it when she gets called a faggot for it because she'd probably get called a faggot anyway. she doesn't keep it in private and she doesn't see a reason to do so, it wouldn't make her feel any less dysphoric or any better about herself to do it where no one can see it. she may well actively present as female in public long before transition (= full-time female life).

>>7868625
Ah yeah, sorry! It does literal nothing for me. I can't even fap to cis porn anymore. I've just accepted being female (penis). Or girlfriend (male). Or whatever meme anyone cares to put.

I just get off to me having sex with dudes. There's no fetishization of just BEING a girl anymore. I think the AGP thing is really a lot of self-hatred and desperation.

>>7868628
But in your first example, would she still feel that way in total social isolation, without knowing what clothing is women's or knowing how her body is male and not female?

>maybe surreptitiously buying her own online
I'm proud of working up the courage to buy mine from a real store, face to face with a real employee!

>she may well actively present as female in public long before transition (= full-time female life).
The opposite, going boymode during transition is a sign of agp?

>>7868642
What do you fap to? Female (penis) x guy?

>I think the AGP thing is really a lot of self-hatred and desperation.
The desperation I can see, or repression. Why self-hatred?

>>7868667
>Female (penis) x guy?
Basically, but the problem is almost all female (penis) x guy porn is just porn for straight dudes/chasers usually. Way oversexual. I'm not into female (penis). I'm into female (penis) being romantically dominated by a big strong man.

I just like big stronk dudes sexually now (didn't ever before until getting a bf) and really just big dudes fugging effeminate trans/traps/dudes gets me off. I can't identify with cis women sexually because I don't know what being fugged in the vagina is like, though I can still get off to cis women sucking dick and just self-insert as them.

>The desperation I can see, or repression. Why self-hatred?
Repression I should have mentioned too, you're right.

I think you hate yourself for not being a woman/man, and being a man/woman/freak instead. I think AGP is more likely with people who repress harder. As a result of repression, you hide away almost every feeling you have regarding gender identity but you still have to masturbate, so the only time your feelings have an outlet it's masturbation. I think one must become desperate for outlets, and that's usually it, maybe crossdressing in secret for some people (not me, too scared before), and your psyche gets warped by only being able to pseudo-self-identify sexually. Hence desperation. Obviously some AGP are literal fetishists and are "trans" in the same way a pamperchu is a diaperfur, but some AGP I think are that way (or are simply observably similar) because of self-hatred and desperation and repression.

At least that's how it was for me.

I'm just a person who looks and sounds like a girl, wants to be identified as one with others, identifies as one to themselves, and has a penis and used to be seen as a guy and looked like a guy (if smol and twink).

>>7859848
>How are sure your brain is just like that of the opposite biological sex?
As others have said, it's not JUST like it. But the science so far suggests it's a lot closer. In a society where we split into two genders, I lean more towards male (as an FtM) than towards female. So it makes no sense for me to struggle more in the female role if I have the option to transition instead.

>Many people behave kind of like the opposite sex but they identify as their birth gender, why don't you?
I really don't think this is true, desu. I have met many women who have traditionally masculine INTERESTS, but I've really not met any who truly behaved like the opposite sex. Whereas I clearly always gave an "off" vibe to other people trying to live as a girl, and people have told me that I just come off to them as male. I have been called "he" in a t-shirt with waist-length hair.

>Do you believe lesbian MtFs and gay FtMs have brain like that of the opposite biological sex too, at least partially?
Probably just less so than straight trans people, since gay people in general have brains leaning more to the opposite sex.

>>7860552
>What do you want from a legal/policy standpoint?
For medical professionals and government workers to be educated on the issue, helpful and professional. I mean, back in 2000 I went to a mental health clinic as a hopeful teenager to ask for information on "sex reassignment," and an entire office of people just lazily photocopied the DSM pages on Gender Identity Disorder, called me a dyke and giggled at me until I left with my head down.

I don't want that to happen to other kids.

I don't really care about/support marriage equality. I'm ambivalent, if not hostile, to anti-discrimination laws in general, as I'd prefer greater freedom of association. Employers who find trans employees to be decent employees and who care about profits will continue to hire us.

>I don't understand why your movement is so vocal or why it is dominating the media.
Jews.

>>7868095
Lurk more here, you'll see bi/lesbian cis women describe "AGP" fantasies.

I have read some of the posts on this stuff to my lesbian roommate, and she just looks baffled by it. She considers some measure of "AGP" to be normal for women.

>>7868354
>There is no such thing as a hard, capital "T' Truth in anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U

>>7861106
If you go by my sexual orientation, I am A*P. If you go by any of the other collected traits, I am HSTS...the primary reason I just cannot begin to take Blanchard seriously.

I of course have run across "Blanchardians" on here who say that being typed by sexual orientation isn't set in stone. But then what's left to hang this typology on? Age of transition? Not the best idea when part of that depends heavily on medical access. Being gender conforming in childhood? Maybe, but since many cis gays are not gender conforming in childhood, this could indirectly just be typing people by sexual orientation again.

I just don't see a justification for Blanchard's theory atm. On the one hand, maybe it is true that straight early transitioners and late-transitioning transbians have totally different etiologies. On the other hand, maybe both groups have exactly the same etiology for their transgenderism, but other factors affect the expression of the disorder dramatically. Why would you assume it's the first and not the second?

>>7868820
I'm not a new ager but that video is fun-ish. Critical Theory isn't worthless, and brings up important points on the metaphysical assumptions of ideologies. You need a holistic understanding of philosophy and science and need to understand that the pragmatisms we work off of (for good reason) aren't why-proof.

Why do black holes form? Mass doesn't collapse instantly once it reaches higher and higher levels of degeneracy (electron, proton, neutron, etc). There are no "instants" of time, everything is literally relative on a fundamental level of existence with regards to reference frame in timespace. The "radius" of a black hole depends on the mass, but what happens in the moment that the collapse moves from collapse to black hole? What is "occurring" in that instant? Simply taking a star and calculating the hypothetical Schwartzchild radius isn't truly sensible because it's a shortcut that doesn't address the star's infinite spherical cross-sections' Schwarzchild radii. Mass collapses but cannot enter the Schwarzchild radius, but there is mass within the hypothetical Schwarzchild radius of a star pre-collapse. So that mass would actually fall "outwards" if it fell within that radius as it creates a "sphere" of mass/energy around a black hole that must have "grown" from the center of the star to its Schwarzchild radius during collapse. Everything is approaching but nothing is entering and if you've done high enough level physics to be working with Horizon Mass Theorem, you know it's extremely wonky, unanswered, perhaps unanswerable, counter-intuitive possibly paradoxical.

And that's operating on the fundamental nature of the universe as described in GR/SR and it has silly levels of fuckery. So to go "le ebin knowledge le science" is to be stuck in a mindset literally hundreds of years old if you can't acknowledge both the pursuit of knowledge and the essential lack of truly grasping things from outside one's own perception/phenomenology.

Lrn 2 philosophy

>>7868628
So what about extroverted agps and introverted hsts?

>>7868884
Because how black holes work is really relevant to whether or not we can get meaningful information from an MRI. Critical theory turning people's brains into absolute mush: exhibit #we've-lost-track

If that's what I'd "lrn" if I studied philosophy, I think I'm better off without, thanks.

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>>7859848
I am not sure if my brain is like that of the opposite sex. I wish more research was done on this but social justice and political correctness won't allow it because they think anyone who's curious is a nazi.

>>7860182
ok

if You are a gay and seksy attack helicopter.

Just remember these 2 things.

1. Its ok to be gay but not ok to be a faggot.

2. Do not piss people off by playing the ding dong song proudly in every ones face, just do What You do quitly, how would You like to hear about the shit I just took in painful detail or the hooker I just fucked and also licked her pussy... Like that? well Im looking forward to my future AIDS test, Like that?

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>>7868945

>>7868940
An MRI gives meaningful information, you act like I imply otherwise. It's information that works within the context of our lives as we live them.

I mean, I'm just saying, chances are I understand science to a greater degree than you. Lots of things, actually. Music, philosophy, literature. You need a holistic understanding of things to approach anything. You might have heard of Socrates or Kant before. There's very simple, base level ideas at work in simply understanding that knowledge isn't a literal Absolute. Noumenon is Phil 101. Fucking Hume was an Empiricist and he's the father of the Is-Ought problem.

If you go beyond that, you can pick apart things on the level of relation and fundamentals. Technically if you wanted to do math regarding human activity on the planet, you could represent people as fucking wavelengths of energy to simplify things. Are people wavelengths of energy? Technically, mass is energy and can be thought of as wavelengths of energy, which is why scanning tunneling microscopes work. So people are technically wavelengths of energy. Does that "matter"? Maybe not necessarily, but being ignorant of the fact that things are literally relative, scientifically, and literally contextually because knowledge is contained with perspectives/phenomenologies is being an ignorant dumbo. What, do you think Capital "K" Knowledge just floats around "existing" outside of us? Are you a Platonist? Do you think books mean something if they can't be read or understood by minds? If wikipedia existed but there were no minds in the universe to comprehend it, would that knowledge actually exist to you?

As it is now, being trans hasn't even been settled on the scientific/pragmatic level. Hence my statement on personal Will/Ideology of Self. It's simple Nietzsche.

Appeals to science by people who watch YouTube videos for science information and don't understand science is always fun though, Anon.

>>7868924
those traits are not introversion/extroversion, though a lot of people act as though they are. i'm an ambiguous-but-was-extremely-introverted-when-younger hsts ftm (admittedly ftm shifts the balance a little), and i still argued with my conservative catholic all-girls school to let me wear the androgynous gym uniform when i didn't even do gym and presented masculine enough i'd get read as male *while on the grounds of said all-girls school*. this was at 13/14, before i fully transitioned. my introversion did not hold me back -- presenting the way i naturally do was so fundamental to who i am that even the extreme social anxiety i experience to this day couldn't counteract it.
i've heard similar stories from introverted trans girls. it's not intro/extro that makes the difference.

>>7869034
When I would act girly my parents would beat me and my classmates would too. I must be AGP since I stopped acting girly for a long time once I got good at not being hit and never crossdressed publically and only started privately at first and with friends once I was a senior in college.

>>7869038
you know, i knew one person who tells a story exactly like this when she was a toddler.
she was a completely gender-conforming boy.
really activates those almonds

>>7869042
Less meme: I pass, have extremely vanilla fetishes, am attracted to dudes much more but just open to stuff in general, and so yeah I feel like trutrans has little to do with being openly different as a kid. I mean I was openly different enough to get beaten for it until I wasn't, and no one was surprised when I came out (which honestly made me super mad especially when my parents were accepting despite training me to present male through corporal punishment; might be partially because they found out through me ending up in a hospital from a drug overdose dressed in women's clothing).

Every once in a while I have the nightmare where I realize the reason my life turned out okay and almost normal after transition is because I'm still in the hospital losing consciousness and this is my mind creating something nice for once before I die.

>>7869061
i agree with you, as it happens. it's not childhood i'm talking about so much as adolescence, where people have rather more control over themselves as people than they did before but simultaneously have an intense pressure to become their 'true selves'. also, there's no such thing as 'trutrans'.

>>7869064
Eh, I didn't have independence until college and even then very little since I still lived with my family and went to a religious institution.

What's there being no "trutrans" even mean. If there's no requirements for being trans and it has not real defining attributes then how does one even identify trans people?

>>7869071
>What's there being no "trutrans" even mean. If there's no requirements for being trans and it has not real defining attributes then how does one even identify trans people?
neither a*p nor hsts is 'trutrans', they're equally trans. there are obviously defining attributes of trans people, like transitioning, but the more i research the topic ironically the harder it is to identify them -- but amongst two people who both have severe transsexualism, one of who is a*p and the other of who is hsts, neither are truertrans than the other.

Same as gay people.

Because it feels good and right and the opposite feels bad and wrong. End if discussion.

>>7868978
>all these random buzzwords prove my point

>>7868972
Watch the norwegian documentary "hjernevask"

>>7870131
>I don't understand stuff so it's buzzwords
Posts can only be 2000 characters long.

>Socrates
Referenced because he knew that he "knows nothing". Try reading one of Plato's dialogues. The point is that the Socratic Method is how one develops greater understanding, but you'll always be able to dig past the point of understanding.

>Noumenon
Very simple Kantian idea. This is the Thing-In-Itself. We can never know the Thing-In-Itself, we can only know the thing as we observe/understand it. This is relevant because it's part of why you can't ultimately know things as an Absolute. Kant wasn't part of the phenomenological school, but that's how I use Noumenon.

>Is-Ought
Hume was an Empiricist so you're in good company here. Even then Hume knew you couldn't say how things WERE (is) and derive how things should be (ought). Point being you can't use metaphysics or knowledge to determine morality (but the fucker goes and does it anyways). This is relevant to trans people because knowing HOW a trans person exists isn't necessarily going to give you an ought with how to deal with them or how they deal with themselves.

>Ideology of Self
Nietzsche understood that if "God is dead", one can no longer justify their morality using hand-me-down morality. There's a good number of agnostics/atheists whose belief system is "lax Christianity without the God part", believing in essentially Judeo-Christian values. If not, they believe in Empiricism and wear a fedora and don't realize Empiricists aren't even Empiricists anymore because that's stupid.

Essentially, being trans is very personal. Being trans is phenomenologial. It's visceral and experiential. Ultimately it's going to be "your opinion" because "your opinion" is your Self. The science is probably going to end up miscontextualized, tainted by public opinion, cis people who don't know what they're talking about, and trans people swallowing Gender Theory cock like retards.

You are like a baby to me.

>>7860552
i think a large part of the movement is directed towards trying to change generations of hate based in ignorance, myth and stereotypes. obviously not everyone's going to chance their stance even after being educated, but it's worth a shot.

as for legal rights...are you saying we've already achieved those? it's not impossible for a trans person to get a job, etc, but being unable to be stealth severely impacts your chances.

in addition to your list, some important ones are being able to change the gender marker on any legal documentation (if not removing them entirely), for expensive, life-saving surgical procedures and HRT to be at least covered by insurance, lack of of discrimination in housing or education. it would also be nice to not be seen as some kind of freak of nature by a large chunk of the population or to be able to leave your house without an increased risk of harassment or violence.

>>7861106
>gay people of their natal sex
>other heterosexuals of their natal sex
subtle

>>7871689
>knowing buzzwords and their definitions makes me right

>>7874132
Are you just interested in getting me to say things? Because you're trying to get another long post, and that interests me. You don't have to do that, you have Radical Freedom!

Anyways, it does, yes. The drug trip helps.

>>7859848
Why Shanoa?

>>7859848
Dysphoria isn't about feeling male or feeling female, at least not the form most here seem to have.
It's about disliking the physical aspect... More than disliking it, being tortured by it, hating it, being completely depressed about it, with some going as far as suicide to get the feeling to subside.

>>7874132
>actual and well documented people and philosophical concepts are "buzzwords" now
I never thought I'd say this, but please educate yourself.