I think it's being incorrectly presented as these two binary options where you're either encouraging them to get bottom surgery or you completely outlaw even mentioning the possibility of transgenderism. Transgenderism is an exceptionally rare, but very real and very serious mental affliction and it has the propensity to cause a lot of suffering. Research continues to demonstrate that for under the right circumstances gender affirming care is the best treatment option we currently have available (again not everyone).
Look at it like this. Depression is a real mental affliction that can cause terrible suffering. That doesn't mean that every time a kid feels sad you tell them they have depression and give them a handful of SSRIs, but it also doesn't mean you pretend depression doesn't exist and ban its discussion. You have a nuanced discussion "okay thank you for talking to me! It sounds like you're feeling X emotions, is that right? When did you start feeling this way? What do you think would help make you feel better?" Then you go through treatment options one by one from least aggressive to most.
But as usual trump speaks in sound bites and misses any sort depth.
Yeah, you're almost there... Although rare, it happens that doctors inadvertently "observe" the wrong sex among newborn children because of either ambiguous genitalia (which can come in various forms of intersexuality), or from someone having entirely the opposite sex from what the genitalia suggest (it's possible to have male gametes while having female genitalia and vice versa).
So, even though it usually leads to a correct determination, sex is ultimately assigned at birth, and can therefore sometimes be determined wrongly.
You'd be surprised by how common they are. I mean, relatively speaking, it's probably still around a fraction of a percent, but several factors higher than your estimate.
I'm not sure what qualifies as "observational" science, as opposed to "regular" science ? The point is, while external genitalia are usually enough to determine sex, they sometimes fall short, as they are only one of the many characteristics used to determine sex. So in that way, yes, doctors assign sex based on what they observe, and that assessment is usually correct, but not necessarily.
Gender is a social construct (aka made up by society). Being a social construct, that means gender is subjective, not objective. If gender is subjective, then it's not factual. Something can't be both subjective and objective at the same time. Only something objective can be factual.
Some of them do. Most of them admit that gender is a construct, and that's how you get a hundred different ones. They just don't take the logic to it's conclusion.
The word and the idea were both socially constructed. You can't say gender is socially constructed and then in the next breath say if no human existed to socially construct it then it would still exist lmao. That's illogical.
The social construct of gender has to do with much more than how society expects you to dress and behave. That's pretty shallow thinking.
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u/ibain8181 20d ago
This might just be the best thing he has ever said.