I was curious about that idea that ROGD is considered a medical diagnosis, and i am happy to see someone with some knowledge address this question. It had looked to me not that it was considered a diagnosis, but a description of a social phenomenon.
S-BM is using their blog to drive home the ideology that transgenderism is based on science, when it clearly is not able to be. It can’t be defined clearly enough to generate testable hypotheses. Gender dysphoria, yes, that can be defined. But cross-sex gender transference? No, No, no, no. Is it a spectrum, or is gender discrete? Is it fixed, or is it fluid? Some sort of duality, like the wave particle of light? What is a gender identity? No one really knows, do they, except that they “know” that they have one and if it doesn’t match their privates there is something medical to be done ASAP.
Sastra
And to add to that is-it-science list:
What would falsify Gender Identity Theory?
What are clear, non-circular definitions of: “Sex,” “Gender,” “Man,” “Woman,” “Male,””Female.”
If a scientific test for being transgender was developed, should those who are convinced they’re transgender and fail, admit they were wrong about what they thought they knew about themselves?
If there had not been people claiming to be transgender, would scientists have been trying to solve the perplexing puzzle of how female people manage to know they’re women, and how male people figure out they’re men (the search for a biological explanation for “gender identity”)?
maddog1129
“Gender identity” phooey. I don’t have a “gender identity.” I don’t “identify as” anything having to do with gender, or even sex. I don’t “identify as” the sex that I am; I simply am that sex. Nothing I can do about it. To the extent I have an internal “identity,” I think of myself as a human being, a particular mind with the characteristics common to other human minds, yet with the uniqueness of my own thoughts and experiences.
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I was curious about that idea that ROGD is considered a medical diagnosis, and i am happy to see someone with some knowledge address this question. It had looked to me not that it was considered a diagnosis, but a description of a social phenomenon.
S-BM is using their blog to drive home the ideology that transgenderism is based on science, when it clearly is not able to be. It can’t be defined clearly enough to generate testable hypotheses. Gender dysphoria, yes, that can be defined. But cross-sex gender transference? No, No, no, no. Is it a spectrum, or is gender discrete? Is it fixed, or is it fluid? Some sort of duality, like the wave particle of light? What is a gender identity? No one really knows, do they, except that they “know” that they have one and if it doesn’t match their privates there is something medical to be done ASAP.
And to add to that is-it-science list:
What would falsify Gender Identity Theory?
What are clear, non-circular definitions of: “Sex,” “Gender,” “Man,” “Woman,” “Male,””Female.”
If a scientific test for being transgender was developed, should those who are convinced they’re transgender and fail, admit they were wrong about what they thought they knew about themselves?
If there had not been people claiming to be transgender, would scientists have been trying to solve the perplexing puzzle of how female people manage to know they’re women, and how male people figure out they’re men (the search for a biological explanation for “gender identity”)?
“Gender identity” phooey. I don’t have a “gender identity.” I don’t “identify as” anything having to do with gender, or even sex. I don’t “identify as” the sex that I am; I simply am that sex. Nothing I can do about it. To the extent I have an internal “identity,” I think of myself as a human being, a particular mind with the characteristics common to other human minds, yet with the uniqueness of my own thoughts and experiences.