"male socialisation" rhetoric is simply an effort to deny trans girls any interiority pre-transition: no one talks about gay ppl being "straight-socialised", bc we understand that the experience of growing up gay differs markedly from the norm... (🧵)
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@Kriss_YEOWZA tbf a lot of trans people know the studies suggest that transitioning does change their biological sex, but they telephone thru the actual biologists (us) instead of actually looking into it
@Kriss_YEOWZA insights into how sex hormones signal in primary human cells, and potentially explain the contribution of sex hormones to sexual dimorphism in inflammation and development of complex immune diseases."
This is one example of HRT changing our dimorphic qualities. I can dm more :)
@Kriss_YEOWZA "This testosterone-associated reduction in IFN-I responses was in line with lower TLR7 responses in males compared to females (121). Therefore, approaches that study immune cell phenotypes, including membrane and nuclear receptors, and downstream chromatin remodeling will provide
@Kriss_YEOWZA a lot of this is good but I also highly suggest looking deeper into the mosaic model of sex. it introduces hormone dominance, gene expression, and toxicology onto the primary and secondary sexual characteristics which further support the idea that sex is mutable. intersexology-
@fartchod@AHSTROL fair enough. I think I was off-put by the very sudden bioessentialism (given lots of trans women have vaginas, and some can menstruate and do have uteruses in intersexology) lolol