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Rahvin Member Posts: 4046 Joined: Member Rating: 7.4 |
Can you envision a place where brain alteration would be a better treatment?
Sure. Here's the deal: neither the brain nor the body are ill. They're simply mismatched. To resolve the mismatch, the patient can choose to have one of the two altered. The decision of ich is fairly arbitrary if we don't take into account any other concerns - we have a square and a triangle, and we can either change the square into a triangle or change the triangle into a square. Currently we can only change the body, and we're getting pretty good at it. But if some new miraculous treatment were available that would alter the brain structure instead, with lower or equal risks to the patient than standard gender reassignment, then I would support the patient's ability to choose either method to resolve the disparity. If brain treatment were significantly safer and more effective, then I would view it as potentially the preferable form of treatment. The important fact that seems to be the crux of the issue however is that neither body nor mind are ill. There is no "problem" that resides in either one. Both are healthy. The only problem is in the mismatch. The mismatch could hypothetically be resolved either way. Currently the decision is moot simply because only gender reassignment is at all effective. That may change some day.The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. - Francis Bacon "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus "...the pious hope that by combining numerous little turds ofvariously tainted data, one can obtain a valuable result; but in fact, the outcome is merely a larger than average pile of shit." Barash, David 1995.
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ringo Member (Idle past 440 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Straggler writes:
Welcome to EvC. One of the things we stress here is that if you claim a cause-and-effect relationship, you have to propose a mechanism by which the supposed cause produces the effect. Otherwise, all you have is a correlation. Until you can show how those features of brain physiology cause transgenderism, you can't legitimately conclude a physiological cause and you can't legitimately hand-wave away the comparisons with similar situations. Actually I've put forward brain structure as the cause.... So, stop special pleading for transgenderism and approach the topic honestly. What's the difference between a man who wants a healthy leg amputated and a man who wants a healthy penis amputated? What's the difference between a man who "feels" like a woman and a man who "feels" Chinese?
Straggler writes:
Clearly you're not following my argument. My argument is that your logic points to brain surgery.
In fact if we follow the bizarre logic of your argument people who want cosmetic surgery on their eyes should be seeking brain surgery instead.......
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ringo Member (Idle past 440 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Straggler writes:
Nobody loves transsexuals more than I do.
I am trying to gauge whether it is surgery you are are objecting to or if you are just opposed to the entire idea of transsexualism period.
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ringo Member (Idle past 440 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Rahvin writes:
That's why I objected to the term "corrective" surgery.
Neither are defective. Rahvin writes:
False dichotomy.
Currently the only available method of treatment for that mismatch is to alter the body, because we cannot with any success alter the brain on this level.
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Straggler Member (Idle past 94 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
So do you accept that there is a mind body mismatch or not?
How would you answer the hypothetical I put forward in Message 220
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Straggler Member (Idle past 94 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined:
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So basically you are just denying that brain structure is a cause of transgenderism? You really need to read the link I keep referring you to. Link
quote: So do you have comparable evidence of there being Westerners brain characteristics in Oriental bodies or whatever other bizarre comparison it is you want to make? No. I didn't think so.
Ringo writes: My argument is that your logic points to brain surgery. Ideally I'd give transsexuals the sort of option I detailed in Message 220 Given that you sidestepped considering that hypothetical I am not really sure what your point is here or what solution you would support beyond everyone loving themselves and everyone else for who they are. Which is lovely in a 'world peace' kinda way but probably not gonna happen any time soon....
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ringo Member (Idle past 440 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Straggler writes:
What does "mismatch" mean? What criteria do you use to distnguish a match from a mismatch?
So do you accept that there is a mind body mismatch or not?
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Straggler Member (Idle past 94 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
I can summarise in my own words if you would prefer but you might want to look up 'gender dysphoria' Link
quote: Basically it means one's gender identity doesn't match one's physical sex.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
I heard on the radio that the percentage of gays in America are actually about two to three per cent. So this nonsence of political correctness, etc has allowed this tiny percentage of citizens to set a lot of agenda in just about every sector of life from business to educational institutions to government.
The problem may be that they tend to be more concentrated in high profile radical sectors where they get a lot of media attention. They also cause enough havoc with children to get a lot of attention. They tend to demonstrate so as to get aired on the media etc. I think some of it is due to the femaie hormones in so much product like food and lotions etc. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future. Someone wisely said something ;ike, "Before fooling with a fool, make sure the fool is a fool."
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Straggler Member (Idle past 94 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined:
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This thread isn't about homosexuality.
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ringo Member (Idle past 440 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Straggler writes:
I'm asking the same of you that we ask of creationists when they bring up things like vapour canopies: What's the mechanism? So basically you are just denying that brain structure is a cause of transgenderism? Your quote says that, "... significant sexual dimorphism (variation between sexes) in BSTc did not become established until adulthood," whereas the example in the OP showed "symptoms" at age 4, so I'm not seeing the connection.
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ringo Member (Idle past 440 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Straggler writes:
I asked you for criteria. How do you tell if a person matches or doesn't?
Basically it means one's gender identity doesn't match one's physical sex.
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Rahvin Member Posts: 4046 Joined: Member Rating: 7.4 |
I heard on the radio that the percentage of gays in America are actually about two to three per cent. So this nonsence of political correctness, etc has allowed this tiny percentage of citizens to set a lot of agenda in just about every sector of life from business to educational institutions to government. The problem may be that they tend to be more concentrated in high profile radical sectors where they get a lot of media attention. They also cause enough havoc with children to get a lot of attention. They tend to demonstrate so as to get aired on the media etc. I think some of it is due to the femaie hormones in so much product like food and lotions etc. Sexual orientation is completely and totally separate from gender identity. Sexual orientation concerns the gender(s) you are sexually and romantically attracted to. Gender identity concerns who you are. A gay man does not identify as female. A lesbian is not a man trapped in a woman's body. Transgendered individuals run the full gamut of sexual orientations. There are transwomen (biologically male with a female identity) that are heterosexual (attracted to men), homosexual (attracted to women) and bisexual. The two are entirely indepenent of one another.
this tiny percentage of citizens to set a lot of agenda in just about every sector of life from business to educational institutions to government. GLBT individuals have not affected a single sector of life beyond the simple demand to be held equally with every other subset of the population. It is illegal and morally wrong to discriminate based upon religion or race when hiring for a job (for example), and homosexuals have only desired that they should enjoy the same protection, as they are a historically persecuted minority. It's illegal to refuse to hire Christians simply for being Christian, and likewise it is (and should be) illegal to refuse to hire homosexuals simply for being homosexual. Imagine, Buz, that Christians were actually persecuted the way that homosexuals have been. It's been an awful long time since a Christian in America was beaten to death for the great sin of being Christian. Never in American history that I'm aware of have Christian meeting places been invaded by the police and everyone arrested for being Christian. These things have happened to homosexuals, and often. If Christians were treated in that way, would you not want the law to recognize the Christian right to marry, to practice their religion, to meet and congregate without fear of being arrested, to have equal opportunities for employment? That's the entirety of the "homosexual agenda," right there. That's it. They only want the exact same rights that you have enjoyed every day of your life. Whether you view their "lifestyle" as "sinful" or not (for surely there are belief systems that would count your own beliefs as "sinful" as well), is it wrong for them to seek true equal treatment under the law?
They also cause enough havoc with children to get a lot of attention. In what way, exactly? Are you talking about the myth that homosexuality is somehow "contagious" and that children will become homosexual simply because they see a gay man on TV? Or are you referring to the even more offensive and false myth that homosexuals tend to also be child molesters (most pedophiles are, of course, heterosexual, even after correcting for representation in the population)? The GLBT community is getting no more (less, in fact) press than the race-based civil rights movement received a few decades ago. Homo/bisexuals and transgenders are simply the latest in a long line of traditionally suppressed and persecuted minorities standing up to demand equal treatment under the law.
I think some of it is due to the femaie hormones in so much product like food and lotions etc. That doesn't make sense, in large part because one would not expect "female hormones" to have an effect on lesbians. Or bisexuals. Or transmen (female-to-male transsexuals). "Homosexuals" are not at all exclusively gay men, remember. The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. - Francis Bacon "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus "...the pious hope that by combining numerous little turds ofvariously tainted data, one can obtain a valuable result; but in fact, the outcome is merely a larger than average pile of shit." Barash, David 1995.
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Rahvin Member Posts: 4046 Joined: Member Rating: 7.4 |
The current discussion is not, but the thread title does include the word "gay."
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. - Francis Bacon "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus "...the pious hope that by combining numerous little turds ofvariously tainted data, one can obtain a valuable result; but in fact, the outcome is merely a larger than average pile of shit." Barash, David 1995.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 313 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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I heard on the radio that the percentage of gays in America are actually about two to three per cent. So this nonsence of political correctness, etc has allowed this tiny percentage of citizens to set a lot of agenda in just about every sector of life from business to educational institutions to government. You could have placards made saying: "We are the 97%". 'Cos no minority should have disproportionate influence over "a lot of agenda" except the rich. I think that's something we can all agree on. But could you give us a little more information about this "lot of agenda" that they're setting? Do they determine fiscal policy? Decide who we go to war with? Are they responsible for our god-awful healthcare system? Do they decide what tax rate I should pay? What of other "sectors of life"? You mention business: do they decide what products Microsoft makes? Did they force GM to paint one in every ten cars pink? Do they set the price that McDonald's charges for a quarter-pounder? Do they, in fact, do anything that would affect my life in any way whatsoever?
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