Like I said, I think the adult human female definition is very much an acceptable or good one and I don't begrudge anyone using it. I do wonder, though, what your intuitions are about edge case body swap scenarios. Would you say that a man who goes to sleep and wakes up a woman just *is* a woman, then? I'm inclined to think he's still a man, just trapped in a woman's body, which is why I drag all the neurology stuff into play, to explain away that intuition.
That's a fun hypothetical! Personally, my intuition is that re-writing all my DNA would be sufficient to change me into a woman, but not necessarily because of the genital anatomy. I'm thinking there might be some sort of neurological change that would result from re-writing my DNA that would make me identify as a woman. I'd definitely need therapy in any case though!
My twitter account is https://twitter.com/ChefStamos but functionally, no. I forgot my password and got locked out of my account AND got locked out of the email account I had set it up with so I can't even reset the password lol, but it's still set to automatically share my substack posts there. Silly me!
Like I said, I think the adult human female definition is very much an acceptable or good one and I don't begrudge anyone using it. I do wonder, though, what your intuitions are about edge case body swap scenarios. Would you say that a man who goes to sleep and wakes up a woman just *is* a woman, then? I'm inclined to think he's still a man, just trapped in a woman's body, which is why I drag all the neurology stuff into play, to explain away that intuition.
That's a fun hypothetical! Personally, my intuition is that re-writing all my DNA would be sufficient to change me into a woman, but not necessarily because of the genital anatomy. I'm thinking there might be some sort of neurological change that would result from re-writing my DNA that would make me identify as a woman. I'd definitely need therapy in any case though!
My twitter account is https://twitter.com/ChefStamos but functionally, no. I forgot my password and got locked out of my account AND got locked out of the email account I had set it up with so I can't even reset the password lol, but it's still set to automatically share my substack posts there. Silly me!