the Trans fight is never going to be won on scientific grounds, because no one is actually fighting it there!
when transphobes of whatever flavor invoke biology, or biochemistry, or genetics, et cetera, they’re not actually interested in talking about those things!
never once have i managed to sway someone by saying that, actually, i’m an intersex trans person and a chemical biologist by training, i’ve studied molecular genetics, this is what contemporary science actually says about sex phenotypes—here’s how your information is wrong and why that’s important!
instead, without fail, someone who took high school biology and thinks haploid and diploid are kinds of dinosaur condescends back to me with some variant of: “wow, you paid all that money for a degree and you still don’t know Basic Biology?”
this has happened to me, to doctoral students, to PhDs, MDs, clinicians and researchers of every possible flavor, to the president of the international genetics federation—no transphobe actually wants to talk science!
the Basic Biology these kinds of people talk about is not a scientific investment, it’s a purely conservative, ideological one! science, too, is not immune to ideology! clinging to the WPATH guidelines like some kind of holy book will not save you! this is a social conflict and it needs to be waged socially.
