I mean If a guy wants to be a swordfish why not just let him? It doesn’t seem mutually exclusive with transgender rights. It’s absurdism for sure. And I don’t doubt that there is a fair amount of trauma since conservatives make those parallels as dumb jokes.
But, and I guess I might be influenced by the book I’m reading “Diaspora” which is about post humans living in a simulation.
For me personally, I might, if given this chance in a virtual world, choose to be a feminine anthro creature because for me it would feel right.
While one of those aspects is practically impossible in the real world, our minds which define the extent of possible feelings of bodily dysphoria are products of nature and environment; and capable of great change. So to create a hierarchy of validity between the two aspects of my desire feels like an appeal to nature.
However, as long as we are all piloting flesh mechs, I understand how this argument might feel threatening as to a conservative it might be used to justify the slippery slope arguments that they frequent.
Because it’s possible for someone to be born neurologically intersex. It is not possible for someone to be born neurologically interspecies. Trans identities arise from neurology, just like anything else. It’s entirely possible for someone with a male body but a brain primed for a female form and female social role. That is at its core what it means to be trans.
There is simply no equivalent for trans racial or trans species folks.
Your mistake is that you view being trans as a quirky body mod that people chose, rather than a correction of a fundamental neurological disconnect someone is born with. In other words, someone can be born with a female brain in a male body, vice versa, or somewhere in between. Again, there is no equivalent for trans racial or trans species.
I mean If a guy wants to be a swordfish why not just let him? It doesn’t seem mutually exclusive with transgender rights. It’s absurdism for sure. And I don’t doubt that there is a fair amount of trauma since conservatives make those parallels as dumb jokes.
But, and I guess I might be influenced by the book I’m reading “Diaspora” which is about post humans living in a simulation.
For me personally, I might, if given this chance in a virtual world, choose to be a feminine anthro creature because for me it would feel right.
While one of those aspects is practically impossible in the real world, our minds which define the extent of possible feelings of bodily dysphoria are products of nature and environment; and capable of great change. So to create a hierarchy of validity between the two aspects of my desire feels like an appeal to nature.
However, as long as we are all piloting flesh mechs, I understand how this argument might feel threatening as to a conservative it might be used to justify the slippery slope arguments that they frequent.
Because it’s possible for someone to be born neurologically intersex. It is not possible for someone to be born neurologically interspecies. Trans identities arise from neurology, just like anything else. It’s entirely possible for someone with a male body but a brain primed for a female form and female social role. That is at its core what it means to be trans.
There is simply no equivalent for trans racial or trans species folks.
Your mistake is that you view being trans as a quirky body mod that people chose, rather than a correction of a fundamental neurological disconnect someone is born with. In other words, someone can be born with a female brain in a male body, vice versa, or somewhere in between. Again, there is no equivalent for trans racial or trans species.