Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25951143-20150101110046/@comment-26871067-20171201192717

If your brain was transplanted into someone else's body, are you now that person or are you still you in someone else's body? If you were to tell me "I'm now that person" I'd call you a liar. I woud never believe that you would believe that.

Your brain, and your identification of yourself, is what matters.

Gender is a social construct. This fact is proven by the existence of nonbinary genders not linked to the sexual binary throughout history. Even in the modern world, these concepts remain: the hijra in India, two-spirits in different First Nations cultures, kwhaja sara in Pakistan, kathoey in Thailand, mahu in Hawai'i, waria in Indonesia. The gender binary is refuted all over history - it's a Eurocentric belief that was forced on other cultures when they were invaded and their own cultures suppressed or outright wiped out.

Your argument's asinine. Why do you consider body to be more important than mind when it comes to identity? And yes, using male pronouns for someone who identifies as a girl is in fact transphobia. I am confident that you know "transphobia" does not mean "scared of transgender people".

It is an arbitrary thing to put people in boxes based on parts. We could have chosen anything - but we don't have "brown eyes" bathrooms and "blue eyes" bathrooms. We chose "do you have a penis or a vagina", and "what skin color do you have", and assigned that importance.

Why does it matter so much to you to cling to "it's just biology" in the face of real people with real experiences who are hurt by your behavior?