Timeline for Conscious basis for gender identification
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| Apr 23, 2015 at 14:52 | vote | accept | lemon | ||
| Apr 22, 2015 at 21:37 | comment | added | Christian Hummeluhr | @lemon The evidence suggests I would, yes. We do not know how in a biological sense, but the time scales involved more or less rule out any conscious involvement. If five year olds are already statistically indistinguishable, then the process has almost certainly started in the prenatal period. | |
| Apr 22, 2015 at 21:22 | comment | added | lemon | If you close your eyes and forget what you look like, and forget the fact that you've always been told that you're a boy, can you identify your gender? If so, how? | |
| Apr 22, 2015 at 21:20 | comment | added | Christian Hummeluhr | @lemon I focused on the question, "What conscious experiences lead a transgender person to identify with the opposite sex?" The answer to the question in your comment is that there is no evidence to suggest any rationalization happens at all. That is just the way Nadia's brain developed in the womb, and Nadia's parents/doctors made a wrong gender assessment at birth (most likely based on visual inspection), then named her Nick. | |
| Apr 22, 2015 at 21:17 | comment | added | lemon | This is a fantastic answer...but, I feel, to a slightly different question. While I am willing to reform my question to accommodate your answer, what I am more interested in is what thoughts or feelings reveal to a transgender that they were born as the wrong gender. For instance, I know that I'm male because I have a penis, and I know that I'm heterosexual because I find myself attracted to females and not males. So how does Nick know that he should really be a Nadia? What is his/her rationalisation? | |
| Apr 22, 2015 at 20:06 | history | answered | Christian Hummeluhr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |