Gender critical feminism being used as a smoke screen for anti-transgender
views is  a direct consequence of the transgender community abandoning the
notion of brain sex.  Brain sex was a testable hypothesis that has since been
tested out as true.  Yet so much activism has been built on gender identity.  Two
ideas which are based on social realities gender roles and markers of
identity.  This left a way for hateful people who call themselves feminist to sound
reasonable. 

The Transsexual Brain Is Real DEAL WITH IT.

Brain Sex the idea so simple and easy a seven-year-old
could understand and explain it is, in essence true (ScienceDaily).   This
is not sexist, in fact most of the leading researchers on this topic are
female.  The differences are subtle but real and distinct from sexual
orientation (Nienke M. Nota, 2018).   Although there are some correlations between
feminization of one area of the brain and an orientation towards masculine sex
partners and masculinization of another area and orientation towards feminine
sex partners.   They are NOT the same thing AND NOT 100% separate either.  It
is one big grey area that both supports and refutes ideas dear to activist and
dear to the likes of Ray Blanchard.  As
I suspected, and tried to model with math, long ago neither were exactly
right or totally wrong.

Back in those days the popular idea was of a feminine
essence a “hard wiring of the brain” as Lynn Conway would but it that was
different.    Something which at the time could only be known to the one
expressing the feeling.

Any idea as fundamental as who and what you are should be
simple enough to explain as a seven year old.   Even if not everyone is woke
enough to know that at seven some are.

Then just as technology was reaching a point where we could
verify such a notion everything changed.  The transgender community
abandoned it in favor of an even more ephemeral idea that can’t be objectively verified
even in principle.  “identity”.     

I get why, gatekeeping. 

The
problem is  that any such knowledge will likely be used for gate keeping. 
It is the same ideation that is the reason any typology or categorization of
transgender and/or transsexual people is dangerous.   In the bad old days to get
ANY help one had to convince their care givers that they fit the gender stereotypes
of the gender they felt driven to live as.  This was not just a “real life test”
where one had to socially transition and get a job but it was a …beauty
pageant.   For all intents and purposes.

There is a great fear of going back to that… beauty pageant
model…of telling who is trans enough or not. A model in which unless one looks
like a model they are not trans enough.  If one would not be straight and
handsome as a female to male or feminine and into men, cisgender men as a male
to female one would not be trans enough.   That was a thing in the bad old
days.

Except now it could be done with a brain scan.

Science does not care.

So there are good civil rights human rights focused reasons
not to embrace the brain sex idea now that it is supported by hard scientific
evidence.   None of those reasons trump hard science.  We have neuroanatomical
proof in vivo, in living people, at every age before hormones and after,
showing that our brains are different.  Rather than pretending this information
does not exist we should embrace it. 

Being transgender/transsexual is as much a birth right of
those of us who are as being a cisgender “normal” man or woman is to those who
are.   

What you do about that… if it means complete social and
medical transition for you or not is a separate question. 

What if you think you are trans and your brain gets scanned
and it does not conform to what we think we know about the transgender brain. 
So what?  Given the state of research on that it is way more likely science
would just add to the catalog of what comprises a transgender brain rather than
prescriptively tell someone they aren’t trans.    It will be a LONG time before
any responsible practitioner would feel comfortable diagnosing ANYTHING like
this based on an FMRI or similar.

At worst all anyone would miss out on is a bit of
affirmation that they are on the right path.    The scary truth is … the
verity of this life path for any person can only be affirmed by living it.  The
only real test for transgenderness is to try living across the gender line and
seeing if it fits.

How Gender Critical Feminist Are Right and Wrong.

They are right to be skeptical of the idea that just because
someone is a bit gender non-conforming they are therefore transgender and
should socially transition or transsexual and should medically transition.   Liking
pink, liking dolls, liking certain games or activities, wearing pants or
dresses, none of that makes a bit of difference.  Liking football, digging in
the mud, hunting, fishing, fighting, none of that makes a bit of difference. 

Except as outward expressions of the sexually dimorphic
aspects of the persons brain informed by societal expectations.  We see people
who think the way we do doing things and we naturally gravitate towards those
like minds.  In that sense and that sense only is gender identity a thing. 
It is an effect of having a certain brain sex not a cause.

Truly gender critical feminist… ones who don’t simply hate
anyone with a Y chromosome get that.   They are not threatened by it.  They
seek to change what our society says is OK for people who’s bodies and /or
brains are feminine should do.  That people should be free to do what they feel
like without gender-based stereotypes.   They seek to free XX and XY people
from the tyranny of old worn out stereotypes many of which were imposed by
marketers.   

Pink is for girls? Marketing!

Classic
example of marketers imposing a gender stereotype to sell toys. When I was seven
the girls I wanted to be like most wore a blue uniform to the same catholic
school I did.    I wanted to wear that uniform.  In spite of not because of the
other kids calling me a girl due to how I acted.  It was just what I felt would
be more right for me.  That said… because I liked the activities of a cub scout
I was ok with that uniform.  Then when I was sent to public school the next
year I kinda wanted to be a brownie scout … scouts who were girls too. Wow! 
However then in public school I could wear what I wanted and the children’s
fashion of the time was actually kind of unisex.   Not many dresses on girls in
my hood. I have shared the
pictures before.  

I can describe this plenty
but maybe a person needs to have lived it to really know it. To
me I was certain that somehow someway I would grow up to be a woman.     The
world gave me doubts now and again… the transphobia of so many did.  Yet here I
sit.   Myself and the people like me are real and have always existed in some
form or fashion. 

As for Radical Feminist.

Then there are those hateful people who think what I lived
is just a patriarchal conspiracy to oppress women and girls.    They should
please wrap themselves up in tinfoil and jump into the deepest part of Lake
Superior.   Anyone who thinks I am the way I am because some old men like it is
out of their mind and in denial of the reality of oppression and violence
transgender FTM men and MTF women experience.

Bibliography

Nienke
M. Nota, B. P. (2018). Brain functional connectivity patterns in children and
adolescents with gender dysphoria: Sex-atypical or not? Psychoneuroendocrinology.
doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.09.014

ScienceDaily.
(n.d.). Transgender brains are more like their desired gender from an early
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