Same reason I don’t like when they do scans on trans people’s brains to show that they are in line with their preferred gender. I understand that they’re trying to find some kind of objective claim to being trans, but it’s simply not going to work that way. It would only be weaponized.
People were searching pretty hard for the “gay gene” for a while there. Good fucking thing they didn’t find anything.
Seems like whenever they do that what they end up with is “here are 20-30 genetic and environmental factors that are associated with [insert psychosexual type], but presence of any specific one doesn’t guarantee it.” Shit’s too complicated for “here is the singular gay/trans/etc gene.”
Same reason I don’t like when they do scans on trans people’s brains to show that they are in line with their preferred gender. I understand that they’re trying to find some kind of objective claim to being trans, but it’s simply not going to work that way. It would only be weaponized.
People were searching pretty hard for the “gay gene” for a while there. Good fucking thing they didn’t find anything.
Seems like whenever they do that what they end up with is “here are 20-30 genetic and environmental factors that are associated with [insert psychosexual type], but presence of any specific one doesn’t guarantee it.” Shit’s too complicated for “here is the singular gay/trans/etc gene.”