i thought I would drop back in for a while since I saw this essay that has been around for a while called "The New Evolution Deniers" by Colin Wright in Quillette.
Now he has obviously got the claims of transgender people completely backwards - no transgender person claims that socialisation caused them to be a particular gender.
They don't claim male and female brains start out identical, they say they have the brain characteristics usually associated with the opposite sexual characteristics.
Indeed it is the gender critical side who claim that being trans gender is socially transmitted. Indeed the author of this article makes this very claim elsewhere.
Quite surprising that someone who holds himself to be the embodiment of science, rationality and intellectualism didn't even bother to glance at the position he was attempting to critique.
He goes on:
OK, so brain differences linked to sexual characteristics is well documented in nature.
Also, as he says elsewhere, these differences are not always linked to the sexual characteristics and can vary.
How exactly does that contradict what trans gender people say about themselves?
In fact it seems to show quite plainly that the reports of trans gender people are quite consistent with evolution and observations of nature.
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The group that most fervently opposed, and still opposes, evolutionary explanations for behavioral sex differences in humans were/are social justice activists. Evolutionary explanations for human behavior challenge their a priori commitment to “Blank Slate” psychology—the belief that male and female brains in humans start out identical and that all behavior, sex-linked or otherwise, is entirely the result of differences in socialization. |
They don't claim male and female brains start out identical, they say they have the brain characteristics usually associated with the opposite sexual characteristics.
Indeed it is the gender critical side who claim that being trans gender is socially transmitted. Indeed the author of this article makes this very claim elsewhere.
Quite surprising that someone who holds himself to be the embodiment of science, rationality and intellectualism didn't even bother to glance at the position he was attempting to critique.
He goes on:
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Most are probably not aware, but animal personality research is a vibrant field within behavioral ecology due to the ubiquity of personality as a phenomenon in nature, and its ability to explain interactions both within and between species. In nearly every species tested to date for the presence of personality, we’ve found it, and sex-linked personality differences are frequently the most striking. Sex-linked personality differences are very well documented in our closest primate relatives, too, and the presence of sexual dimorphism (i.e. size differences between males and females) in primates, and mammals generally, dramatically intensifies these differences, especially in traits like aggression, female choosiness, territoriality, grooming behavior, and parental care. |
Also, as he says elsewhere, these differences are not always linked to the sexual characteristics and can vary.
How exactly does that contradict what trans gender people say about themselves?
In fact it seems to show quite plainly that the reports of trans gender people are quite consistent with evolution and observations of nature.
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