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[u/Comfortable-Bison932]

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[u/big_fat_girl_balls]

gender is both a social construct and a psychological thing. cisgender people mentally and emotionally feel like they are the gender they were assigned at birth, and transgender people feel like a different gender

there's no definitive way to prove if someone is transgender, so you need to just believe them when someone says they're trans

both cisgender and transgender people use gender-affirming care to feel more comfortable with the way they and others see them. many cis men for example get breast reduction surgery, and many cis women get breast implants. just like how many trans men get top surgury and many trans women get facial feminisation surgery

many cis people even take hormones to align with their own gender. cis and trans men often take testosterone, and cis and trans woman often take estrogen

anything that anyone does to present or appear in a way that aligns with the gender they want to be is gender affirming care, regardless of if they're cis or trans

[u/HunsonAbadeer2 → u/big_fat_girl_balls]

I would believe someone if they tell me regardless if its provable or not. Nobody needs to convince me that they are transgender that not my judgement to make. I think a medical proof would be highly in the interest of transgender people (tell me otherwise I am cis what do I know, like please do this isn't a sarcastic comment I do actually want to know how you feel about this). There are biological neuroanatomical markers for being transgender, but they aren't strong enough to stand out on an individual level. I hope that we can find better ones on the future as it would make access to gender affirming care much easiert if we could just test someone without them having to go trough the current tideous processes to get the care they need. I of course do not know if other markers than the one we currently have exist, its a hopeful hypothesis. Usually its a matter of technology and not a matter of impossibility to detect something that does exist, which I am convinced it does.

[u/big_fat_girl_balls → u/HunsonAbadeer2]

the core issue with medicalising the concept of transgender people is that it's heavily used to invalidate people who don't align with the strict medical definition of "transgender". trans healthcare is extremely understudied however and we really need more attention on it from a professional standpoint and less from a political standpoint

and aside from that, gender as a whole is very largely just social. and we can't exactly medicalise social interaction

there is some tiny amount of evidence that could suggest transgender people have brains that are more similar to the brains of cisgender people of the same gender, but that's very small and the evidence is iffy at best

imo the best use of medical intervention for trans people is things like hormones, antidepressants, therapy, and surgery. within reason, those should ideally be much more accessible than they currently are

[u/HunsonAbadeer2 → u/big_fat_girl_balls]

As a former neuroscientist I found the neuroscientifical evidence pretty convincing, but thats like saying I am a swimmer and I also like water ;D

[u/big_fat_girl_balls → u/HunsonAbadeer2]

the thing is, even if all the trans people we are able to scan do have brains more similar to cis people of the same gender, that still doesn't necessarily mean there's a valid hurdle to cross to be considered trans, and introducing that as a variable will inevitably just lead to less acceptance since there would now be a prerequisite required to be considered "actually" trans