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.
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Date: 2023-04-19 08:58 pm (UTC)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.