"In a more primitive stage of our evolution, we might have needed a neurologically based sex identity (just as we once needed a tail bone)"
I don't think this is something lost to antiquity. Every mammalian species is sexually dimorphic and requires sexual activity between the two sexes to procreate. I don't think it's much of a stretch t…
"In a more primitive stage of our evolution, we might have needed a neurologically based sex identity (just as we once needed a tail bone)"
I don't think this is something lost to antiquity. Every mammalian species is sexually dimorphic and requires sexual activity between the two sexes to procreate. I don't think it's much of a stretch to suggest that the hormones that lead to physical differences between the sexes would also translate to emotional and attitudinal differences as well.
The only part of the “just a social construct” discourse I don’t like is the “just.” If we were to trains neural net for billions of years abs it kept clustering things into two categories we wouldn’t quickly discard that information. On the other hand, it appears dysphoria occurs across cultures and histories. I think the new part is there are large enough populations to meaningfully network and create larger cultures.
"In a more primitive stage of our evolution, we might have needed a neurologically based sex identity (just as we once needed a tail bone)"
I don't think this is something lost to antiquity. Every mammalian species is sexually dimorphic and requires sexual activity between the two sexes to procreate. I don't think it's much of a stretch to suggest that the hormones that lead to physical differences between the sexes would also translate to emotional and attitudinal differences as well.
The only part of the “just a social construct” discourse I don’t like is the “just.” If we were to trains neural net for billions of years abs it kept clustering things into two categories we wouldn’t quickly discard that information. On the other hand, it appears dysphoria occurs across cultures and histories. I think the new part is there are large enough populations to meaningfully network and create larger cultures.