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[feotakahari]

I think they’re going to find a form of environmental pollution that’s causing all these young trans women with physical and mental health problems.

I don’t think the “trans” part is the problem there.

Even if something quote-unquote “made” you you trans, you can decide for yourself how you feel about that and what you want to do about it. You have no obligation to submit yourself to other people’s ideas for a “cure.”

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Like I said on Tumblr, you can see recognizably kinda-sorta trans-like people long before modern industrial pollution (two-spirits, galli, hijra, enarees, etc.); gender variance is both ancient and widely geographically distributed, so I don't think it's caused by an environmental pollutant. My guess is it's a complex genetic trait that often "skips generations," like autism, with culture heavily influencing whether and how gender-variant impulses are expressed in behavior and maybe with stuff like fetal hormone exposure and epigenetics also playing a role.

You're probably not going to be able to "cure" a genetic trait in adults or even children, much like you can't take sugar out of a cake when you're halfway through baking it.

[feotakahari]

What makes me wonder is all the chronic illness. Granted, it’s hard to entangle that from stuff like “trans folks make less money” or “trans folks have less stable housing.”

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It's pretty common for a gene to effect multiple organs and systems, "allele that gives you gender dysphoria and autism and also depresses your immune response" totally sounds like the sort of thing random mutation might produce.