John

[John @Tomassty]

Just want to put it out there with all the phallo hate right now that I had the surgery done over 5 years ago and I’m still very happy with it. Is it perfect? Of course not. But before I got it I thought about how I didn’t have a dick 24/7. It was always on the back of my mind.

[John @Tomassty]

@Vanessa73877327 @duskafterhourz @StellarFox16 @AstroLlamaBeans If you say your gender is woman while being born male, you’re really just saying that part of your brain is altered in regard to your sex. But with the way it’s often explained I completely get why people take issue to it and find it regressive.

[John @Tomassty]

@Vanessa73877327 @duskafterhourz @StellarFox16 @AstroLlamaBeans The way most trans people explain it literally makes no sense. Gender is not a social construct. Theres gender norms but they’re completely unrelated. Transsexuality is likely caused by some alteration in the brain related to body ownership and mapping.

[John @Tomassty]

@duskafterhourz @StellarFox16 @AstroLlamaBeans I hate that trans people call gender a construct cause that’s what makes people think it’s equating it to social norms. Those exist but saying that’s all it is contradicts trans being real. It’s a body mapping and ownership issue in the brain, not a construct.

[John @Tomassty]

@ShaneSpinsIt @DollGroyper Ya some people just have a narrow idea of what a trans person is. Then they realize I’m not at all what they were picturing and they became great friends with a trans person. They may still think it’s a mental illness, but don’t look down at me as “mentally ill”.

[John @Tomassty]

@Figuregirl1977 No one said that and that doesn’t change anything. Both statements can be true, they don’t contradict each other at all.

[John @Tomassty]

@Figuregirl1977 There’s no lies or manipulation, that’s just how hormones work. And nothing about it or the conversation that sparked it has to do with women’s spaces. It’s about healthcare access and anatomy.

You also all consider me a woman, so I should be entitled to an opinion.

[John @Tomassty]

@DanniBrener @jb_belk Ya and we base that off of sex characteristics. If you induce enough changes in those your brain is going to read someone as the opposite sex. This is also a very intuitive idea. Your brain can’t tell when or how someone developed said characteristics.

[John @Tomassty]

@suicidebyc0p @omgitsOwlGirl @cuddlecutegirls Exactly, plus parts of the brain involved in self-perception, identity, body mapping, etc are still poorly understood. Plenty of other conditions involve these things and are not yet fully explainable, but they’re rarely accused of being fake.

[John @Tomassty]

@omgitsOwlGirl @suicidebyc0p @cuddlecutegirls They don’t know for sure what exact part of the brain would be responsible for it, but there’s studies that suggest it. But why would Reimer feel male if there was nothing in the brain innately related to sex? If there wasn’t, he wouldnt question being female.

[John @Tomassty]

@omgitsOwlGirl @suicidebyc0p @cuddlecutegirls They’re saying that literally every aspect of the human body can develop incorrectly or differently than normal. So with Reimer’s case showing part of the brain is aware of your sex it really isn’t that surprising that it could also develop wrong, making your sex feel wrong.

[John @Tomassty]

@Thatspetarded @cuddlecutegirls Money thought that gender was completely malleable. That if a male was socialized as a girl, especially if he were made to believe he was female all along, he’d adapt to it. His idea contradicts the existence of gender dysphoria completely.

[John @Tomassty]

@esqlegaleagle @bortinez_ Wow so you guys really are just retarded

[John @Tomassty]

@DC_Kakle Every change besides the beard is just reflecting a smile. How about just be honest with yourself. Is there any scenario, any picture that could’ve been used where you wouldn’t say it looked like a woman? You know there isn’t.

[John @Tomassty]

@DC_Kakle @mannyagni You mean those features changing cause the dudes now smiling? The eyebrows went up like half an inch, they didn’t even change.

It’s okay to just admit you were wrong.

[John @Tomassty]

@DadNamedMeSue @bortinez_ Just take the L for once. You all showed once again that the appearance doesn’t even matter, you’ll say you can tell no matter what. Cause you can’t stand people passing as the opposite sex for some reason.

[John @Tomassty]

@bortinez_ @socalledcharlie This is just another example of how self-ID ruined things. Way less people cared about bathrooms when you only saw passing trans people using them who caused no disturbance. Then people felt entitled to go wherever they wanted, and now no one trusts our judgement.

[John @Tomassty]

@StellarFox16 @Lavendar_Willow @DreamLeaf5 It shows that there is a part of the brain that is aware of what your sex is. He was made to believe he was born female, but still sensed something was wrong. Practically every aspect of the human body can develop incorrectly, why are you so sure that this can’t?

[John @Tomassty]

@thepeacepoet99 I came out in 2011-2012ish and there was barely any information online to begin with for trans people. That was probably the best info anyone could give you at the time considering research on anything trans related has been set back decades due to stigma.