justherefordaart:

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There is a diagnosis for dysphoria. I’m pretty sure it requires an MRI or CAT scan, but it’s proof that, at the very least, transgenderism is very much real. How much of what’s been claimed is real and how much is people vying for attention is my issue. You certainly aren’t abusing it, and you’re willing to talk about it, which is really great and something I’d like to see more of.

Patreon, I was just using as an example of how fake claims can be abused for profit. Sorry if it was out of nowhere.

uuhhhmmmmmm

the diagnosis for dysphoria is “hey, do you have dysphoria”

there is no scan for determining whether someone is trans

you may be thinking of something like this research from a few years ago that did brain scans on a few trans dudes and some cis people

but we have no idea what we’re actually looking at, which is why i put like zero stock in “brain scans”

for all we know there could just be a part of the brain that stores the pronoun you go by, and here we are publishing papers on how WHOA MEN’S AND WOMEN’S BRAINS ARE DIFFERENT like a bunch of idiots when that’s true by definition

anyway uh

since your whole argument here seems to be about the possible non-existence of non-binary people, here’s some food for thought

the actual paper makes clear that the trans guys didn’t even have 100% identical structures to the cis guys; they were just closer to cis guys than to cis gals

so you can’t really use brain scans to define a binary; even the people in this study didn’t fall on two well-defined extremes!

“false claims” omg