mismatch between the biological sex of their brain and the rest of their body
sex of their brain? meaning? Is your biological identity defined by brain or your physiological properties?
People don’t go under the knife to have their genitals radically altered for fun.
if you do not have a physiological abnormality like in the case of hermaphrodites, i do not see the need for such.
Your self-concept of which sex your are. If you lost your genitals in an accident, would you stop being a man?
To your self, your brain obviously, because all mental phenomena is a result of activity the brain. To the outside world, the rest of your body. When these two mismatch, it can be a very painful experience primarily because you experience the dysphoria from the first person perspective. Some people grow up with a sense of being in the body of the wrong sex from a very young age. I know one such person. It's horrible.
Because you take your own gender identity for granted. The overwhelming majority of people have their gender identity, their physiological sex (and there sexual orientation which is yet another completely separate issue) in perfect alignment. That's actually quite remarkable given how extremely complicated a process the development of a human being from a fertilized egg into an adult is. Thousands of genes have to express in precisely the correct sequence at precisely the right times to build the phenotype over the course of nearly two decades. The process is at its most sensitive phase in the uterus because its then when all the basic structures form.
one's concept of their sex is learned and not inherent like most people's genetic makeup. Most of what is learned about our sexual makeup are based on our physiological makeup and societal influence. The same way someone who isn't born with genitals will struggle with their sexual identity.
i don't think it is obvious. Your brain is just a tool to help process inform and make sense of your environment. It makes senses of whatever it perceives. Even people with psychological disorders perceived things that arent actual, so I do fault that narrative.
I don understand the chromosomal narrative which is scientifically proven but likelihood of such event happening is less than 2%. It is an abnormally which is expected occasionally
That is not the case. In the 1970's that was believed to be the case. There is some experience with boys with botched circumcisions who were brought up in the female role. That didn't work.
Not in the way of not knowing their gender identity. There's a lot more to it than just genitals.
What organ other than your brain do you think with?
Of course, it's an abnormality.
hmmm...reference?
Then what other way? i am a man based on my physiological characteristics (majorly because i have a penis) without that then it becomes a very subjective matter. If I am a man based on what I think/feel I am and can't explain based on things that can be empirically evaluated, then I could as well be a goat or a bird that cannot fly.
you can think and come to conclusions because there are information/data available for your brain to process, without that your brain is partly useless. That's the point--the brain functions in relation to the information given to it. So if I am asked what I am? i will say a 'man' and I arrived at that conclusion based on the information--physiological characteristics--available to me.
And an abnormal should not be a reason we cannot distinguish a man from a woman. That's a dangerous line we are crossing adding to the confusion that already exists. I don't want my kids worrying about their gender when they should be having fun because we grown-ups are confused. I see them teaching these things in kindergartens/elementary schools which are quite perplexing. Treat abnormalities as they are.