'Trans theory is a fetishisation of womanhood' - from a nuclear bomb on my Facebook feed calling Bruce Jenner a misogynist.

Right, because doctors are immune to bias and every doctor is right?

Here's the thing, I see a lot of trans critics referring to this "transracial" concept, but it doesn't make much sense beyond a surface level understanding of transgenderism. Race is entirely a human construct. The only genetic components are the actual phenotypes -- skin color, hair type, disease risks, etc. This whole concept of "race" is something we've made up, and if we somehow lived in a world without the ability to recognize it, our internal identities would be pretty much intact.

The same isn't true for trans people, because gender is biologically linked. (Gender in this context means gender identity, or the deep internal sense one has of whether they are a man or a woman. Gender roles, performance, behaviors, etc. are social constructs, but that's not what I'm referring to.) There's a significant amount of scientific, peer-reviewed evidence that supports gender's biological links (would link, but on mobile), key among them that transgender brains are more similar in structure to the gender the individual identifies with. Hence, why trans men are men, and trans women are women. We can't change the brain, so we fix the body, correcting where somewhere in development something went wrong and that person received an opposite-gender brain. This is why trans people experience dysphoria, the brain knows its body should be different than it is. It's incredibly distressing, almost physically painful. Medical and social transition have been proven to alleviate dysphoria (although I do agree that SRS isn't for everyone), again suggesting it's something real in the brain.

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