Friday, May 20, 2016

Wanting to be a woman vs. being a woman / inconsistencies

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435638/transgender-identity-biology-gender-social-construct-anatomy-binary

"There would seem to be an unbridgeable knowledge gap between such a person and the object of his desire. He reports a longing for the first-person experience of being a woman, but it is an experience he has never had. No number of observations of womanhood can amount to a first-person knowledge of being a woman. Hormone treatments and surgery might ape some aspects of being female, but he would receive these after his initial gender-dysphoric symptoms, not before. Though the psychological states of transgender persons are real, some of their reports seem not just troubled, but utterly unintelligible. Maybe, however, this transgender person means that he wishes to live as if he were a woman, rather than to be a woman. Nonetheless, living as if one is a woman is not the same as being a woman, which is what gender identity is taken to mean. Living “as if” one is a woman appears to conflict with the idea that one’s gender is determined by one’s deepest self-perception. Surely the very concept of identity is what one is, not what one pretends or wishes to be."

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As a woman, I take very, very, very great exception that any such male would have the slightest clue as what it means to be a woman.  The whole idea makes me furious and I don't get furious that often.  



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