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And what I'm saying is that I think we can answer this, by asking trans people about their experience of transness. There's clearly a biological component to some gender feelings, because if there weren't you wouldn't have so many trans people talking about how much better they feel on hormones. But also, some gender feelings are clearly social, which is why so many trans people really, truly enjoy performing their chosen gender. And I just don't see what more science can tell us here. That those of us who feel better on hormones aren't imagining it, I guess? I suppose it would be nice to have proof of that that cis people can't argue with, but they still will, because transphobia doesn't come from a place of logic.

I guess, to sum up, I'm not in principle opposed to science being done to try to study transness, but I am also extremely wary of bad science being used to try to get rid of us, and anything trying to make a hard distinction between transness being social or biological seems quite dangerous to me.