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"I urge people not to hitch the wagon of trans rights to the idea of inborn, dyadic, neurological differences. Brains are extraordinarily complex and shaped by culture and experience over time. Gender identities are multiple, gender roles constantly evolving, and gender expression varies widely from individual to individual. Intersex people face huge obstacles, and framing us as the lucky group to be emulated denies our suffering. The solution to transphobia is not neurology, but political activism."

Cary Gabriel Costello, “On Trans Gender Identity and the ‘Intersex Brain’”
http://trans-fusion.blogspot.com/2012/08/on-trans-gender-identity-and-intersex.html?m=1 (via sociolab)

On the other hand, it does not do to downplay or deny the evidence at hand.

Many people outright refuse to examine or consider demonstrable biological difference, because they fear the power of a culturally adopted bias toward the naturalistic fallacy.

(Source: feministsociology, via widdershinsgirl)