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To continue
The question of "is there a medical or biological component to being trans" isn't the issue nor is advocating for going thru professionals to figure out if your problems are due to gender dysphoria or something else. It's fair to say there should be at least some kind of baseline expectation for someone to be considered trans like having gender dysphoria but the major issue with this (and why transmedicalism is a faulty belief that falls apart once scrutinized beyond the surface) is that this baseline is by it's nature an arbitrary prerequisite that can be expanded on shrunken at will. No matter how much people cope about transtrenders drinking all the testosterone as a genuine problem somehow, the reality is that being trans is something that you just know, it's not something you decide to just dabble in for a summer just to make 100% sure you aren't. Social conditioning plays a major role in our development and that conditioning is done by a patriarchal society that operates on a gender binary that puts men above women, queer people, particularly gender queer people, do not have a place in this society. Both being gay and being trans were once seen as mental illness akin to paraphilias like pedophilia. Yet trans and gay people continue to exist despite societies effort to file it away as some outlier abnormality because it did not fit into the mold of society that humans made for themselves and ignorantly tried to explain nature and biology as operating within our perception of the world. We then used this perception of nature and biology we forced to meet our expectations to reinforce why the way society exists as it does as being natural. Men are above women and those are the only two genders with only one expression of sexuality and both are expected to operate in a specific way. Biological and gender essentialism, transmedicalism attempts to make queerness conform to these pseudosciences.