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Dec 20, 2012 11:06


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laura_seabrook December 20 2012, 21:47:29 UTC
Oh I agree on that, though their might conceivably be some sort of mechanism to give us certain pre-dispositions to certain behaviours. But so many seem to follow the Lady GA-GA phrase without thinking. What is really "an excuse" becomes a justification regardless of evidence.

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tcpip December 20 2012, 00:42:36 UTC
That's a good reason to oppose the procedure, not the genetics.

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laura_seabrook December 20 2012, 21:49:48 UTC
To a certain type of person that wouldn't matter. And lets suppose say that there is a genetic component to both, it seems likely to me that such wouldn't exist in isolation, that it would be involved in some other function as well.

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tcpip December 20 2012, 22:08:58 UTC
To a certain type of person that wouldn't matter.

And you wouldn't be able to reason with such a person whether the cause was genetic, environmental, or any combination thereof.

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laura_seabrook December 20 2012, 22:58:17 UTC
True enough. To them saying "born that way" would be a condemnation.

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cmcmck December 20 2012, 08:19:06 UTC
Nonetheless I _was_ 'born that way'!

PAIS, remember?

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laura_seabrook December 20 2012, 21:54:36 UTC
Not saying you weren't, but that is a definitely identified condition, rather than a rather vague assumption about latter life behaviour. It's not the same really, is it? When I was in a trans hostel in Sydney I met a number of trans folk who believed that they were "secretly intersex". But such belief wasn't related to any real evidence, but a need to justify themselves. I believe that in the end, such justification is not needed.

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