Jarhyn said:
If brains are gendered, trans rights are necessary as a consummation of brain gender against hormonal balance.
If brains are not gendered, this implies that changing the hormonal balance of the body is all that is necessary for puting someone in the mental mode of their hormonal gender.
In the former case, it implies that trans women are (socially, culturally, behaviorally, neurologically) women. In the latter case it implies that to neurologically be a woman, you must start taking HRT first, but then you are neurologically as much a woman as anyone else is.
The metaphysics of the situation do not allow a reality in which no trans women are women, owing to the observed reality that biology is messy.
Of course, there are female minds and male minds, and so female brains and male brains. But I have not seen a single argument that convinced me that (in general; there might be exceptions depending on how 'trans' is understood, given hermaphrodites and similar cases, though it seems improbable in the usual sense of the words too) trans women are women or trans men are men.
Imagine a woman, say Jane, who believes she is gay. She gets into a relationship with Mary, who has a vagina, breasts, etc., has female secondary characteristics, and of course has a mind that is that of a woman in the following respect: she has experienced having a vagina throughout her life, has experienced female puberty, etc. Of course, Mary has never experienced having a penis, male puberty, etc. Additionally, she continues to experience having a vagina, so it's both a matter of previously lived experience and present-day experience. Of course, she also has preferences involving her vagina, and not preferences involving a penis since Mary does does not have a penis. When Jane and Mary are happily married and living together, the latter comes out as a man, Mario. Was Jane mistaken in her belief that Jane was gay? Is she bisexual, because she fell for a man? It's not as if Jane was mistaken about any property of Mario - they way Mario looked, or some property of Mario's mind - that was relevant to Jane's attraction.
The point is that words have meaning, and in the usual meaning it looks like Mario is a woman who mistakenly believes that she is a man. If not, why is Mario a man? What property or properties of Mario might make it so?
Maybe Mario liked trucks more than she liked dolls when a kid, or things like that. Would that be enough to make Mario qualify as a man?
After considering this matter carefully and looking at many examples of usage, in my assessment, in the usual sense of the words, it would not be enough. Furthermore, it would not be enough to make Mario not a woman.
Now, maybe a significant minority of English speakers would classify Mario as a man if Mario's preferences (not involving Mario's vagina and female sexual organs) were entirely or almost entirely or at least mostly male-like, even if Mario's experiences (and preferences) involving Mario's sexual organs are of course female-like, and despite Mario's actual sexual organs.
If so, it seems to me that people are talking past each other, and in the usage of this minority, Jane is bi, even if she correctly identifies as gay because she uses the words in the majority sense, not this minority's.
But even then, where is the good evidence that Mario's preferences as above are at least mostly male-like?
Even if there is evidence that Mario has some male-like preferences, one could say the same about gay men having some female-like preferences, but that's neither predominant nor enough to make gay men women in the usage of any significant minority even if we assume said significant minority exists. So, again, even by this (hypothetically significant in numbers) minority usage of the words, where is the evidence that Mario is a man? Mario claims to be a man. Does Mario claim that Mario's preferences are male-like, at least mostly?
If so, that provides some evidence. But not that much: Clearly, identifying female and male-like preferences is no easy task, and one has to weigh Mario's testimony in light of the minuscule prior that someone with female hormones and development as described above would have mostly male-like preferences.
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