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[sunjoy]

I think I was way harsh on myself in my last post. My thinking is closely tracking what I'm reading in Serano's book, and my previous post was motivated by her chapter on the transexual dissonance between the sex one's brain expects one's body to be, and the actuality of one's body. (Serano theorizes a biological basis for subconscious sex, because

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[sunjoy]

Clearly any hardwiring (including sex chromosomes) is all mediated first by variant phenotypic expression and then by socialization, but I'd say it's a lot more than a conceit that a child feels that they are somehow gendered differently from their physical body, *despite* all social cues telling them strongly that they ought to identify with their assigned (physical sex). It may not be hardwiring, in the sense that the same genotype would result in the same psychological phenomena in all possible environments, but it is innate in the sense that the child can't reasonably rid itself of the gender dissonance

[sunjoy]

That sounds like a restrictive idea of gender that's based only in your experience (and those of parallel experience) and that invalidates that of others that don't fit it. It's akin (but different) to a bisexual person saying that sexual orientation is socially constructed, and that all difficulties with orientation stem from a conflict between social stigma a personal choice