why is this relevant to what we were discussing?
maybe it’s time to get your very own insanityposting topic
The part about customising children
Explain.
I’m pretty sure developing a different sex brain and body don’t have anything to do with their sense of gender, unless you’re implying that their brain and body are the same and they just developed a condition that made them think the way they do?
Why let someone have the pain of gender dysphoria and not being able to biologically be the desired sex when in the future we’d just be able to change that?
well, all you need to be trans is to be a different gender than the one assigned at birth.
sometimes this will cause dysphoria, sometimes it doesn’t.
the best way to tell is what is called gender euphoria, basically feeling happy when, for example, presenting as your true gender.
just because it’s a “different sex brain” doesn’t have to mean someone is trans. besides, at the point where genetic modification would be viable, the embryo wouldn’t really have developed a brain to assign a sex. and there’s also the problem of detecting what “sex” the brain is. it just isn’t really feasible to do that without funky ionising radiation, which isn’t good for developing fetuses.
well, we know that the brain and body come before the sense of gender is developed, although the way you’ve worded it is a bit weird. but we just don’t know enough about how this stuff works to say how it actually works, and maybe that’s for the better.
having good access to resources and care already helps a lot with that, if not more. Transitioning isn’t the same for everyone. some people are fine with just changing their name and pronouns and are happy with that. you’re putting every trans person into the box of ‘complete medical transition’, without asking them first.
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