Comment on nooo my genderinos

• dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  just FYI, “transgenderism” is a word to avoid

  and yes, gender identity seems to be biological, and genetic.

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  • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    my bad, updated to “transgender,” I read online that’s the preferred noun form (though it looks more adjectival to me)

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    • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think clinically the term gender dysphoria is used, but the trans community would probably prefer trans be used as an adjective and not a noun, someone is transgender, but not “a transgender”, if that makes sense.

      also, the twin studies show gender identity is genetic and heritable:

      …m.wikipedia.org/…/Causes_of_gender_incongruence

      The significant percentage of identical twin pairs in which both twins are trans and the virtual absence of dizygotic twins (raised in the same family at the same time) in which both were trans would provide evidence that transgender identity is significantly influenced by genetics if both sets were raised in different families.

      In 2018 a review of family and twin studies found that there was “significant and consistent evidence” for gender identity being genetically heritable.

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      • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        gender dysphoria is not what I’m talking about, since not all transgender people have dysphoria.

        To be clear – “transgender” the noun is not referring to a person (“that person is a transgender”* – proscribed) but rather as a substitute for “transgenderism”* (proscribed). Personally, using “transgender” seems linguistically strange to me and it just reminds me of Trump saying “transgender for everybody” but if it’s what people prefer then who am I to judge.

        Anyway – yes, I agree that it seems very probable that there are strong genetic components to transgender, but it’s also clearly not purely genetic.

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