Am I only one who hates the hypocrisy of the LGBTQ community towards Neurodivergents?

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Am I only one who hates the hypocrisy of the LGBTQ community towards Neurodivergents?

First of all, there are multiple studies of this nature (hence why I gave the range of 80-90% and not just one percentage from one study)

Please link to the studies you keep reference - not a dailymail article. I'll link some for you while you find the links.

Numerous peer-reviewed scientific studies on the brain of transgender people have concluded that being transgender is actually a form of an intersex condition. I'll even happily provide some.

https://www.newscientist.com/.../dn20032-transsexual.../ http://dailyfreepress.com/2015/02/18/bu-researchers-find-biological-basis-for-transgender-identity/ http://press.endocrine.org/doi/full/10.1210/jcem.85.5.6564 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2811245/

It's an incredibly cruel and invisible birth defect. It's a physiological condition. The sooner you put your ugly, visceral reactions to trans people aside and actually learn something, the better.

And if you're a parent, do your kid a favor and teach them. Research this. Try teaching your kids that the human body is an incredibly complex thing and that you can't possibly know what someone else is going through at a glance. Instead of trying to shield your beloved precious little angel of a daughter from the complexities of the world in which she is about to be thrust into, maybe you should do her a favor and actually prepare her for it. Also, maybe she should be in class instead of protesting something she knows nothing about.

Approximately 1 in 1500 times, a child is born with immediately apparent intersex characteristics - ranging from the presence of both ovaries and testicles to every possible permutation in between. Sometimes, doctors don't know whether the child is a boy or girl. Sometimes they have to make a decision. Sometimes they make the wrong decision (see: David Reimer). Sometimes, even chromosomes aren't obvious. Some people are born with XXY, or some women are born with XY - a rare condition called Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome.

There have been a litany of peer-reviewed, scientific studies on the brains and bodies of people who are considered transgender. Zhou et al. (1995), Kruijver et al. (2000), Schneider, Pickel, and Stalla (2006), to name just a few. What all of these studies have in common is that they've found that transgender people tend to have brain structures and even other biological markers (i.e. finger length ratios) closely matching the gender they identify as. In other words, they have a form of an intersex condition.

The world isn't as simple as male and female. The human body is a complex machine with innumerable components, with which any number of strange things can go wrong - this is just one of them. Of course, to understand that, you might have to wrap your head around the more abstract concept that "penis = man" and "vagina = woman" is not an absolute truth of science, and as uncomfortable as that might make you, your discomfort does not make it untrue. Educate yourself. Check your sources. Check my sources. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Of course, you can choose to ignore all of that evidence and continue to dismiss this person as a pervert looking to prey on high school girls, despite a complete lack of evidence to support that, just to keep your own comfort intact. Simple people, after all, tend to have oversimplified understandings of the world.

You now have slightly more information at your disposal, I sincerely hope you use to learn something about the world.

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