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Originally posted by Zorg
No matter what sort of lifestyle you live, what sort of surgery or treatment you subject yourself to, if you were born with a Y chromosomeyou will be biologically male, and therefore (primarily) mentally male, for all of time.
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So genetics is destiny? Even genetisists don't believe that these days. Since the development of the brain sexual areas and those of the peripheral organs happen at different times and under different hormonal influences they are only loosely tied together. If the genetic program goes right, the brain identity and preference tends to match up with the external organs. Since development is a complicated process sometimes things don't proceed per the genetic blue print. Also sometimes other genes (not necessarily found on the sex chromosomes) effect the outcome differentially.
I don't see how you can say that someone who thinks and feels like a woman despite being XY has less insight into their own head than you do. How the heck do you know that they are primarily mentally male? What does that mean anyway? This insistence that everything is black and white or male and female is very naive.