Musk's Trans wisdom

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1535733409083011073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1535733409083011073%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Falthouse.blogspot.com%2F

"We are simultaneously being told that gender differences do not exist and that genders are so profoundly different that irreversible surgery is the only option.

Perhaps someone wiser than me can explain this dichotomy."

Althouse replies <I>"But who is "wiser" than Elon Musk? If the answer is no one, he's nailed down his position while performing open-mindedness. That's wisdom for you."</I>

I reply:

If the answer is that YOU are wiser, than Musk, and disagree with his position, then he's invited you to use your wisdom to explain why he's wrong.

If you can't use your wisdom to explain why he's wrong, then clearly you are not wiser than him.  No?

Please allow me to expand his statement for you:

1: "A trans woman is a woman" is a statement that a human being born with a penis, where > 80% of the cells that have chromosomes have a Y chromosome, nevertheless becomes female simply by stating "I am female"

If this statement is true, then one does not need "gender affirming medicine" / puberty blockers / hormone treatments / gender reassignment surgery, all one need do is say "I am [fe]male" and that's that you are.

Therefore we can block any "gender clinic" from using surgery / drugs on people, most certainly on children, because they're not necessary. There's also no problem with insurance plans not covering such "treatments", because they're unnecessary


2: "It is appropriate and correct for doctors to prescribe "gender affirming medicine" for kids, and all health insurance, including prison health coverage, must cover "gender reassignment surgery", is a statement that mere feelings are NOT enough, that you must actually effect a physical change in order to have a gender change, that not allowing & paying for such things is "anti-trans", because "trans change" requires a physical & biological change.

In that case a "trans woman" is only actually a woman once the "gender reassignment surgery" has finished.


So what Musk is correctly saying is that if you pretend to aspire to honesty and rationality, you can believe at most only one of those two statements.


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