Comments by "FrozEnbyWolf150" (@FrozEnbyWolf150) on "Jordan Peterson Lashes Out At Twitter Over Suspension" video.
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@CajunCouillon You are not asking questions in good faith. You are making assertions based on your willful ignorance, and then repeating those assertions whenever anyone tries to explain things to you. Sex and gender are not the same thing. Sex refers to biological characteristics and external physical traits. Gender refers to the social construct consisting of roles, relationships, and forms of expression built upon those physical traits. Neither one is a strict binary, as both are closer to bimodalities. You don't know the chromosomes of every person you meet, nor do you know their psychological state or neurological makeup, therefore you cannot make assumptions about individuals based solely on how they present.
Gender identity comes from the brain. For most people, their gender identity aligns with their gender assigned at birth based on physical characteristics, but not always. Brain scan studies have found that the brains of trans people are structurally and functionally more similar to that of their identified gender, insofar as "male" and "female" brains can be said to exist. Other studies have found that only 6% of all people fall neatly into either category, with everyone else being somewhere in between, indicating that the binary categories society has come up with aren't as rigidly defined as once thought.
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@Donetsk People's Republic Seeing as how you're as scientifically illiterate as you are illiterate, it would probably be a waste of time to explain that trans people have been competing at the Olympic level since 2004 and there is no string of trans athletes running away with all the gold medals. Or to explain that HRT changes a trans person's muscle mass and bone density to that of their cisgender counterparts. Or to point out the fact that economic class, way more than any physical attributes, is the leading factor in making sports unfair. I'm not even getting into how all women were originally excluded from sports, and women's leagues were founded as an afterthought, which is why they're grossly underregulated and underfunded, not that you care. Thanks to the kinds of policies you support, trans men are forced to compete with cis women, where there is indeed an unfair advantage, so nice going.
Right wingers have always shit on women's sports, complaining that they're boring, the athletes suck, and boasting that you could beat them yourselves. Now all of a sudden, since it's a popular culture war issue, you've decided to white knight for the same athletes, despite your never giving a damn about women's rights in the first place. I notice it's complete radio silence when it comes to the recent SCOTUS ruling.
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