The "trans people tend not to have great introspective clarity into their own motivations for transition" in the earlier post bugged me a bit too. It's been a bitter thought of mine for a while: I tend not to get into lot of these conversations because, in this phrasing, cis people seem to have much shallower introspective clarity into their motivations for gendered aspects of their lives than I do.
That suggests the following (broad-strokes) thought experiment: take a bunch of people and expose them to the same kind of day-to-day pressure to justify/shift their relationship to gender/sex that trans people seem to experience. Then
The "trans people tend not to have great introspective clarity into their own motivations for transition" in the earlier post bugged me a bit too. It's been a bitter thought of mine for a while: I tend not to get into lot of these conversations because, in this phrasing, cis people seem to have much shallower introspective clarity into their motivations for gendered aspects of their lives than I do.
That suggests the following (broad-strokes) thought experiment: take a bunch of people and expose them to the same kind of day-to-day pressure to justify/shift their relationship to gender/sex that trans people seem to experience. Then
- See how many of them respond with something akin
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