Z M Davis, “Autogynephilia” is a theory, based on the observation that some M-F transsexual people are sexually aroused by female behaviour, which imagines that the arousal causes the desire to appear female. However, in reality the desire may be caused by other circumstances, such as innate brain differences, and supporters of autogynephilia theory have not established the causal link.
It is a failure of the imagination, an attempt to enforce the map on the reality. There are men, and there are women, in the map. Here is a woman with testicles. The map says that cannot be so, the person is a man. However, reality ought to trump the map.
The point of the post still stands. A man does not use a woman’s body, and would have to learn how to do so. A man does not use a woman’s brain, and would have to learn how to do so. Whether after the change was made it was “the same person” depends on what you mean by “the same person”. Upgrading an adult brain is a very difficult problem.
Z M Davis, “Autogynephilia” is a theory, based on the observation that some M-F transsexual people are sexually aroused by female behaviour, which imagines that the arousal causes the desire to appear female. However, in reality the desire may be caused by other circumstances, such as innate brain differences, and supporters of autogynephilia theory have not established the causal link.
It is a failure of the imagination, an attempt to enforce the map on the reality. There are men, and there are women, in the map. Here is a woman with testicles. The map says that cannot be so, the person is a man. However, reality ought to trump the map.
The point of the post still stands. A man does not use a woman’s body, and would have to learn how to do so. A man does not use a woman’s brain, and would have to learn how to do so. Whether after the change was made it was “the same person” depends on what you mean by “the same person”. Upgrading an adult brain is a very difficult problem.