The actual neurobiology here, how a trans person’s brain chemistry is organized, introduces a lot of nuance here.

150 years ago, the idea that there were invisible waves in the air that can carry information would get you institutionalized. Now we measure radio and use Bluetooth every day.

Don’t risk the arrogance of assuming it’s black and white, just because it seems like it should be simple and because the ultraconservative “Christians” fund the message that it’s a certain way and it’s made its way into the culture war.

(Quotation marks because they’re a poor example of Christian values and fail bitterly at compassion).

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No most Xtians today couldn’t recognize Christ if he spit in their eye.

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My beliefs have nothing to do with any sort of "Christian" influence, while I do loosely consider myself to be one now (after a decade or so of atheism) my interpretation of things is completely non-traditional, & the majority of boomer "Christians" that I interact with would call me a heretic.

I don't think brain chemistry is some sort of fixed thing & people are not just their brain separate from everything else. I think the entire framing comes from a completely fallacious view of who & what we are. It's the same view that allows people to believe we will transcend our bodies & exist in computers or something, but I don't think that is how any of this works. I think this view mostly comes from people who are doing & promoting horrible things because they are afraid of their own mortality... which might actually have something to do with their rejection of spirituality or religion in some form or fashion.