In fairness to [member=105]Thryleon[/member] , I thinks it's quite reasonable to ask a question about the relationship between sexuality and gender, posing the question does not have to be always viewed as a subversive act.
There is a distinct relationship drawn between sexuality and gender in the media and social media, but I can't say it actually exists in reality! In think for political purposes both sides of the debate tried hard to make the same link but with different conclusions.
I suspect it would be quite hard if not impossible to make a bullet proof argument that linked identity to sexuality, you could possibly easily establish a trend, but not a rule because there will always be an exception.
If that premise is true, do we have to make laws and rules, both legal and social, for every exception?
Science is not without it's controversies, and can be reported in a distorted manner to suit politics as we well know. In this gender case I can use the example of science's understanding of pain and love. The physical science will suggest the two are different sides of the same coin, that is the pain of losing a limb is a flipside of being in love, because it turns out losing a love exhibits the same physical effects as losing a limb. Bizarre as that may be. What does this have to do with gender identity and sexuality? Well, the hurt and pain of living in the wrong body exhibits the same physical effects as losing a limb or a loved one. Here is the contradiction, pain is being more and more treated as a mental health issue rather than a physical effect, they actually proved this can be treated like an emotional state. It's a bio-psycho-social effect. Yet even though the science now identifies the effects of pain and love as a mental health issue with mental health solutions rather than physical solutions, it will tell you gender identity / dysmorphia isn't a mental health issue but a real physical issue. That contradiction seems to be a political decision and not at all following the science, in fact the direction and conclusions of the two different solutions seems quite arbitrary!
This can be quite hard to accept, because we have to understand and accept that pain, love, emotions are synthetic, just like the way we perceive colours pain and love are a construction of our mind!
There is a distinct relationship drawn between sexuality and gender in the media and social media, but I can't say it actually exists in reality! In think for political purposes both sides of the debate tried hard to make the same link but with different conclusions.
I suspect it would be quite hard if not impossible to make a bullet proof argument that linked identity to sexuality, you could possibly easily establish a trend, but not a rule because there will always be an exception.
If that premise is true, do we have to make laws and rules, both legal and social, for every exception?
Science is not without it's controversies, and can be reported in a distorted manner to suit politics as we well know. In this gender case I can use the example of science's understanding of pain and love. The physical science will suggest the two are different sides of the same coin, that is the pain of losing a limb is a flipside of being in love, because it turns out losing a love exhibits the same physical effects as losing a limb. Bizarre as that may be. What does this have to do with gender identity and sexuality? Well, the hurt and pain of living in the wrong body exhibits the same physical effects as losing a limb or a loved one. Here is the contradiction, pain is being more and more treated as a mental health issue rather than a physical effect, they actually proved this can be treated like an emotional state. It's a bio-psycho-social effect. Yet even though the science now identifies the effects of pain and love as a mental health issue with mental health solutions rather than physical solutions, it will tell you gender identity / dysmorphia isn't a mental health issue but a real physical issue. That contradiction seems to be a political decision and not at all following the science, in fact the direction and conclusions of the two different solutions seems quite arbitrary!
This can be quite hard to accept, because we have to understand and accept that pain, love, emotions are synthetic, just like the way we perceive colours pain and love are a construction of our mind!
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