@OP: I don’t quite see a reason to fret this much over the social construct of gender. “Real woman”. Sure there is a typical female brain that lo and behold is probably different in basic quantifiable ways from your brain, I’m also willing to bet that your subjective experience probably isn’t exactly like the experience of having that brain. Its possible your brain is basically identical to the average male brain, but more likely it isn’t and is perhaps in “objective” ways more similar to the female average brain.
What does this have to do with choosing a social role or building an identity? You might be surprised but there are plenty of proud owners of XXs that identify as women but are due to biological reasons very atypical in mind for that cultural group.
Why should a transsexual person feel bad for being somewhat of a outlier in his chosen social role?
Being a transhumanist self modification in certain limits seems something I might term a right, so even if the social role necessitates certain adaptations (which I’m not convinced modern “womanhood” does) they are surely a triviality and one shouldn’t feel bad for changing them or wanting to change them.
Its the brain modification aspect that is tricky.
What if I’m convinced that my mind isn’t right for the role I desire?
If I felt that like I have the wrong body, would that include my mind?
@OP: I don’t quite see a reason to fret this much over the social construct of gender. “Real woman”. Sure there is a typical female brain that lo and behold is probably different in basic quantifiable ways from your brain, I’m also willing to bet that your subjective experience probably isn’t exactly like the experience of having that brain. Its possible your brain is basically identical to the average male brain, but more likely it isn’t and is perhaps in “objective” ways more similar to the female average brain.
What does this have to do with choosing a social role or building an identity? You might be surprised but there are plenty of proud owners of XXs that identify as women but are due to biological reasons very atypical in mind for that cultural group. Why should a transsexual person feel bad for being somewhat of a outlier in his chosen social role?
Being a transhumanist self modification in certain limits seems something I might term a right, so even if the social role necessitates certain adaptations (which I’m not convinced modern “womanhood” does) they are surely a triviality and one shouldn’t feel bad for changing them or wanting to change them.
Its the brain modification aspect that is tricky. What if I’m convinced that my mind isn’t right for the role I desire? If I felt that like I have the wrong body, would that include my mind?