Well there’s this frequently observed phenomenon where someone feels insecure about their gender, and then does something hypermasculine like joining Special Forces or becoming a cage fighter or something like that. They are hoping that it will make them feel confident of their birth-certificate-sex. Then they discover that nope, this does not work and they are still trans.
People should be aware that there are copious examples of people who are like—nope, still trans—after hoping that going hard on their birth-certificate-gender will work,
Ascertainment bias, of course, because we only see the cases where this did not work, and do not know exactly how many members of e.g. Delta Force were originally in doubt as to their gender. We can know it doesnt work sometimes.
I mean, the problem is if it works we won’t hear about such people—they just live happily ever after and don’t talk about uncomfortable period of their life.
Well there’s this frequently observed phenomenon where someone feels insecure about their gender, and then does something hypermasculine like joining Special Forces or becoming a cage fighter or something like that. They are hoping that it will make them feel confident of their birth-certificate-sex. Then they discover that nope, this does not work and they are still trans.
People should be aware that there are copious examples of people who are like—nope, still trans—after hoping that going hard on their birth-certificate-gender will work,
Ascertainment bias, of course, because we only see the cases where this did not work, and do not know exactly how many members of e.g. Delta Force were originally in doubt as to their gender. We can know it doesnt work sometimes.
While I was typing this, quetzal_rainbow made the same point
I mean, the problem is if it works we won’t hear about such people—they just live happily ever after and don’t talk about uncomfortable period of their life.