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Well the interesting thing is that even something like gender nonconforming behavior isn't actually a definite predictor of something like homosexuality. There is a strong correlation between homosexuality and gender non-conforming behavior in childhood, but the majority of children who display gender nonconforming behavior do not display homosexual attraction, and similarly a large percentage of homosexuals do not display non-gender conforming behavior in childhood.Ya know….Back in the day, when boys played with girl dolls, they were just gay, not a future troon.
Man I wish I could go back to those times….
You can disagree with how society reacts to gender nonconforming behavior, or theorize on its origins, but it manifestly does exist. It is observable in populations that many children will display behavior patterns not in keeping with the majority of their sex. The argument that that implies that they should be surgically altered to the other sex is actually a kind of absurd prescriptivism that basically goes directly against the arguments that were being made 10-15 years ago when it came to stuff like gendered behavior. It's actually basically analogous to older talking points that sought to enforce behavioral gender conformity in kids, it operates on exactly the same logic.
It's one of the things that makes all this trans movement stuff so stupid is how ontologically confused at all this. The transgender argument is essentially become a tautological loop, because none of the observable evidence available would point to the idea that being trans is a thing, the only consistent predictor of being transgender is the desire to transition, neither anatomy nor behavior actually serve as predictors. That's why there's a lot of pushback whenever even a researcher who is sympathetic to trans people tries to find some sort of biochemical or behavioral predictor, because that would inherently imply that some cases could be illegitimate and would therefor act as a gatekeeping function, and on some level a lot of trooners and pooners seemed deathly afraid of anything that would hold up making an immediate rash decision, partially from coombrain desperation, and partially from suppressed self-doubt that they are actually doing something good for themselves
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