I don't pretend to know much about the mysteries, but it seems to me that there are two underlying and extreme premises in our debates about identity and gender, and they contradict each other, and all sides in some respect argue from both premises when it suits them.
On 1 hand, people argue as if each person is their own snowflake, w/their particular shade of whatever, hardened & solidified forever, & utterly unique, upon various spectrums or on one side or another of a binary, & they are wut they are & this cannot be changed much, if at all.
On other hand, people argue as if each person is pure potency, able to will into existence or choose whatever shade of whatever they desire to desire/become, w/no real constraints upon what they are since what they are is will/potential alone, open to infinite changes & choosing.
For all our talk about science & tolerance we cannot now have serious & candid conversations about what underlies vehement opinion on these issues: the underlying understanding of human nature that drives our opinions is obscured by blithering idiocy yelling tropes into the void.
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