• stoneparchment
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    1 year ago

    Hahaha, no. I have a PhD in this. I publish about it. I literally get paid to do it.

    There is much evidence that physiological differences are commonly present in people with non-cis genders. For example, it is true that there are documented differences in the shapes of rain structures of the average transgender person (and there are so many papers about it I’m just going to link the scholar search page instead of each individual article). These differences aren’t even abnormal or abberations from the standard state of human beings, and examples of similar situations extend into the natural world.

    There are many animals with measurable gender variations, such as pairs of individual birds where the gender roles for nest care and territory management are switched compared to conspecifics, fish that naturally change sex over their lifetime, the fact that the standard state of north American Mountain Goats is to display homosexual behavior, and other large populations of mammals where many to most members are intersex. You can read about most/all of these examples and see their cited studies in Joan Roughgarden’s Evolution’s Rainbow.

    It is funny that people are still so resistant to these ideas. It goes to show how effective our cultural biases and narratives have been that we have eliminated not only the realities of our peers alive today, but of humans throughout history, and even animals in nature.