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How would you go about establishing that there are non-(socially mediated) self relationships of disaccord with one's sexual characteristics, then?

This makes sense. I think if you're comfortable bracketing the aetiology of accord/disaccord sensations, it makes the presentation a lot easier initia...

Things are starting to make more sense to me now. So what I find interesting about putting 'sensations of dis/accord with your body's sexual character...

There isn't necessarily a medical dimension to the OP's ideas. Regardless, if what you're saying is true, your needlessly aggressive style in the thre...

What seems intuitive to me is that cisgender people are so identified (enfleshed?) with their sex that it becomes transparent to them, there are no di...

Errr... I do feel some amount of revulsion in thinking that I'd be agender? I mean... Yeah. I'm pretty happy as a bloke, I'm not indifferent to having...

If it was, I'd guess there'd be no need for a philosophical account of 'bearing', no? It'd be pretty easy for cis people to grok the disaccord.

I don't think this is right. I'm cis, I can quite happily imagine body-swapping with a woman friend, and would rather enjoy what it felt like to have ...

Thank you for the clarification. I'm imagining it like: /uploads/files/x2/rhkzxgyp3cwwfa0h.png A body has a relationship with their own body (B), that...

Thank you. @"TheWillowOfDarkness" I think the thrust of the idea is to place the onus on sensations or senses of accord with one's body as it regards ...

I dunno, saying you're unable to follow: while simultaneously being aware of which bits are social construction and which aren't to the extent where y...

I dunno, I'm going to use my fiat powers to remove you from the collective and now what I'm saying has to be true. No. Quote me where I said that.

That clears it up to me. It's about how it feels to be in a body, and the desire to be in a body shaped like another's. What utility does the concept ...

I'm glad that it seems I understood. Given that bearing is psychological, and not reducible to feeling at home in the social role of a gender, what ar...

I enjoyed this, I like the phenomenological angle you're taking with 'bearing'. To my understanding, what you're trying to highlight is the necessary ...

I find it hard to understand that you don't understand. Samantha is born a girl with girl bits. Her birth sex is female. Samantha is gender non-confor...

I dunno, I can be sympathetic to the idea that removal of all gender archetypes is pretty good, but to me it seems like "I don't want immigrant rights...

I'm sorry I have no idea what you're saying because the reasons are just in your head.

The rub is that private languages don't occur at all. They're not possible. So it would be extremely surprising to find one 'out in the wild', no? Esp...

You can keep the old notion of sex, bodily sex, birth sex, what reproductive organs people are born with and so on. No one is thinking that these will...

I don't personally care about whether it's a choice or not. To me that looks like the wrong framing entirely. @"Harry Hindu" is framing things that wa...

Edit: Harry's original post, which I should've quoted, contained the claim that someone can reject gender as a social construction and become non-gend...

Now... what if instead of disowning the entire social construction of gender and throwing the baby out with the bathwater, a person came to disown the...

What are you imagining happens here? Like... are you literally imagining that someone says "I'm a woman" and then they become a woman? Is this the soc...

No, social constructions aren't magic. They're just like being able to disown a family you're born into. You don't disown the hereditary mechanism, th...

Now, let's imagine a world where we have this mystical new word called 'gender_H', which refers to the socially constructed aspects of gender. We're g...

But how can you disown the socially constructed version? I thought there wasn't one!

So you imagine a sorting procedure. Person -label> Gender And it's important that -label> is done 'publicly', whatever that means here. What I'm guess...

Can you describe how this works to me? Like, give me an example.

What form of life underpins the uses of the word 'woman', 'man', 'gender' etc? Come on, words are never just words alone. We have the benefit of a soc...

:up: Other than seeing gender as an umbrella term that partakes in lots of social/biological processes, I agree. The content of gender norms is just w...

And why do you think this view is commonplace?

One of the things that suggests a rule is in play is that mis-identification can happen. It does. Most of the time gender non-conforming teens stop ge...

Right. I can see that. But it completely baffles me how you think gender identity is just what an individual feels, rather than a composition of how s...

Ok, so why does the way the UN definitions of gender expression/identity and transgender and sex put you in mind that it's a private language? Or anal...

And a community of transgenders or non-binary people who report conflicts between the cultural norms they're in, their gender expression, the expectat...

Where do you think this dichotomy comes from? Between 'taught and imposed by culture' and 'determined freely by individuals'?

How can I be part of this family I'm born into?

To a first approximation, God = substance in Spinoza. Not some agent.

I like that you are thinking about processes and the importance of time to them, but I don't like that you are leveraging a notion of time which you h...

I'm glad it reminded you of something legitimately good.

There's a SEP article on them. Other post I used sortals in is referencing type 2.

I find it really reassuring to weaken identity mismatches to sortal equivalences. Sortals take stuff and group them, everything in the group counts as...

No. The name 'transgender' might be new, but people who don't fit snugly in male and female archetypes for their culture and time period are not. Defi...

Start thinking in terms where trans people actually exist and I'll respond in more detail.

I certainly don't think you are prejudiced here! You've been nothing but earnest and exploratory. And I agree that it is important to care about accur...

I guess what I'm saying is we don't need metaphysical speculation for basic characterisation any more. If the UN has a definition of the term they use...

Seems pretty backwards to me. The only reason we're theorising about the metaphysics of transgenderism is because trans people are becoming more socia...

The metaphysical stuff is funny. Before trying to treat this person for gender dysphoria and attendant mental health difficulties, forming support and...

Are you under the impression that doctors do not extensively screen the appropriateness of and tailor hormone therapy (and surgical intervention) to g...