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7/2/2025, 8:53:16 PM
>Be trans
>Spend decades in the wrong body
>Still hold on to your gender identity
>Be cis
>Put on VR headset
>Undergo a sophisticated version of the rubber glove illusion but with VR and gender bending
>Strongly respond to the illusion like a third of people do
>Take implicit association test regarding gendered traits [1]
>Start giving congruent answers slower, as if you're no longer as sure in your identity
>Became nonbinary
>Because you were in a machine for 5 minutes
What did they mean by this?
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.13.905315v1.full
[1] (A picture/statement shows up on the screen. You're asked to classify it in a certain way. In one case the subjects were asked to categorize traits that they have and words like "me", "myself" and "I" in one group and traits they don't have and words like "they", "them", "others" in the other group. Then vice versa. Grouping incongruent traits together takes people a bit longer so you can measure changes in attitude).
>Spend decades in the wrong body
>Still hold on to your gender identity
>Be cis
>Put on VR headset
>Undergo a sophisticated version of the rubber glove illusion but with VR and gender bending
>Strongly respond to the illusion like a third of people do
>Take implicit association test regarding gendered traits [1]
>Start giving congruent answers slower, as if you're no longer as sure in your identity
>Became nonbinary
>Because you were in a machine for 5 minutes
What did they mean by this?
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.13.905315v1.full
[1] (A picture/statement shows up on the screen. You're asked to classify it in a certain way. In one case the subjects were asked to categorize traits that they have and words like "me", "myself" and "I" in one group and traits they don't have and words like "they", "them", "others" in the other group. Then vice versa. Grouping incongruent traits together takes people a bit longer so you can measure changes in attitude).
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