Sarah Brown on Nostr: Being serious here, it would likely be much better if we stopped gendering gonadal ...

Being serious here, it would likely be much better if we stopped gendering gonadal steroids quite so much. The physical characteristics we regard as “male” and “female” are just the result of variances in endocrine system mixes which aren’t as polar as most people assume, and actually overlap, and short of direct reproduction, you can program nearly any human body to develop pretty much any of these different phenotype expressions: just change the mix. Trans people do it all the time. The number of people who assume that, eg, trans women’s tits are all implants (they aren’t) and can’t lactate (they can) is sad. Surely it’s better if we all understand our own biology a bit better?