- The science of gender and sexuality is that it genetically determined. This was proven in the research by Professor Charles Roselli and Jacques Bathazart in their research on “Sexual differentiation of sexual behavior and its orientation” in Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091302211000306) It’s behind a paywall, but you can likely read it if you head to your local university library. But to summerize, the vast majority of a person’s sexuality and gender identity can be predicted purely from genetics. There were over twelve genes involved in determining sex and gender (as opposed to the previous rhetoric that it was *just* the X/Y chromosome which has been debunked in the scientific community as an absolute for awhile now). Anyway, there is one gene on the Y chromosome, the SRY gene, that plays a pretty crucial role, to be fair, but its not deterministic, and the other dozen-plus genes are scattered elsewhere throughout the genome. What the SRY gene does is reduce or enhance expression by some of the other sex/gender genes, but it doesn’t fully turn them off or on. You can, for example, have a Y chromosome, and be purely biolgoically female. Not only because the SRY gene can migrate on or off the Y chromosome, but because the other genes that are normally reduced by it can be self-amplified and the genes normally amplified can be self-reduced. In fact, once you take into account the typical variants that happen to a gene-configuration ( dominant-dominant, recessive-recessive, dominant-recessive, any of those with deletion, duplication, or transposition), you’re looking at more possible gender/sexuality states (specifically 9¹²+) than there are humans on Earth.
- A group doesn’t have to be dominant to have a word for ‘not part of the group’. When Christianity was at its height, it was still outnumbered globally by other religions, and during that time, they invented the word “secular” to imply not part of religious doctrine. Any time you have a boundary case, you eventually have words to describe things on both sides of that boundary to people can talk about it. That’s the way the evolution of language works. Now, you may argue that ‘Hey, Christians were at least dominant where they were’ because, well, you basically made that claim already. Well, if that’s a valid scenario, then you should know something you may not have known. Among the Trans community, Trans are the dominant population. I know, shocking, right, that there’s a place to where cis people would be a minority.
- I admit things are a bit confusing. This is because when cisgendered people forced the trans label on nonbinary people. (Go back to the pre-80’s, and cis people were calling nonbinaries things like ‘transvestite’ and ‘transsexual’). The term trans was reclaimed and redefined. You see, the latin trans-prefix predates its use of referring to the trans community. Not only does the latin prefix allow trans- to mean ‘transform’, but also it means ‘to cover the breadth’ or ‘across opposites’ such as in ‘transiberain orchestra’ or ‘transatlantic railroad’. This is the same ‘trans-’ used in chemistry in reference to molecules angle bends where angels either bend back in their original direction or go off in the opposite direction in shape (https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/tips/cis-and-trans/) And it was a scientist who coined the terms (based off the chemistry understanding) of cis-gendered and trans-gendered.
- If I asked you your gender right now, would you have to unironically say “I don’t know, let me check my pants,” then open your pants, and look down, and then look up in surprise and say, “Oh! That’s what gender I am!” If you *don’t have* to do that, that means you don’t have to rely on external information to know your gender. That knowledge is inside your head. Even if you’re ‘just remembering what parts you have’, that memory is inside your head. That is, by definition, internal since its in your head. And it’s on the topic of what gender you are. And it’s part of your identifying information (along with weight, hair color, favorite foods, etc.) Hence *Internal Gender Identity*. If someone doesn’t have an internal gender identity (or at least an internal rejection of gender such as someone agendered), they likely have brain damage and are vegetable in the hospital. Similarly, if you have red hair, and you *know* you have red hair, you have an Internal Hair Identity. This is not a complicated subject. The requirements are: You have a brain, and you have a concept of self, and traits you identify with yourself. Now, if you’re trying to make the case that you don’t have a brain… well… I can’t help you there.
Written by Lil Rose
Politics: [Glasdog (Geo-Libertarian Anarcho-Socialist for Directly Organized Governance)] Gender:[Trans Woman] Sexuality: [Bisexual] Religious views: [Neophist]