Coming out Pansexual

[artyboy]

I don't think it's plausible. A person's gender can be ascertained by their reproductive organs. In cases where that's in disagreement with the person's sense of self, then, neurological findings (although transsexuality is not currently defined by any neurological findings, I am convinced it has to be manifest in the brain for transsexuality itself to have any credibility) and sex hormones.

I also don't agree that gender is a social construct. Gender is biological/physiological (note that I am not calling it genetic). It's something we're born with. Clinical data and neuroscience back this up.



I also just don't like the idea of there being more than 2 genders. I don't like it or want such a reality. I do have a very traditional understanding of gender. All this genderqueering business, it's revolting, honestly. I have a very strong dislike of women, bordering on full misogyny, as is more or less known about me on this site. It's not so difficult to realize how I would find any idea of mixing the masculine gender with the feminine unsympathetic, to say the least.


But my personal aversions aside, just because we can imagine a spectrum, doesn't mean that it's there. I stand by this. I don't find this concept has any credibility. I'll change my mind when I start seeing some coherent studies and trustworthy accounts (not some confused accounts from anonymous adolescents whose brains are not yet fully matured* and who haven't even fully figured out their own identities yet). Also, as long as this stays a minority phenomenon, it is (if there is anything to it, which I am not buying) an exception, rather than the rule.

Say, if a friend of mine felt this way, and he was a mature adult male, not some teenage boy, then I might trust this whole theory more. As of now, I haven't seen anything trustworthy being said about it.


* This is actually a very important point. Brain doesn't fully mature till well in the third decade of life. Until then, people, adolescents especially, have been known to play around with their identities, try out different things and theories of self. It's all part of normal process. That might include gender fluid experiments for some. Which explains it all.

Blood out of a stone. Comes to mind.

I think this debate has run it's course as all parties are going around in circles.

Just need to ad evolution isn't black and white. And if you don't understand that well good for you lol. Here's a cookie.