Response to Contrapoints ( Autogynephilia, The Aesthetic, Pronouns ) [MARATHON EDITION]
Channel: erin collective
Date: 2019-01-28

obviously i have no hard feelings towards contrapoints and this isn't an attack or something hostile, the thumbnail is literally just for clickbait purposes, and i do get emotional in this video because of hurt so it's not like all positive vibes either.

for what it's worth, i don't presume to have a perfect understanding of gender, i am still learning, i won't budge on self-determination or the elimination of binarism and biological essentialism, but i hope to improve my nuance etc. so feedback is welcome, but keep it about the concepts and not a personal attack :3

might do a summarized version in the future.

here is a rough summary of my objections
- the implication that gender can be binary
- gatekeeping of autophillic trans women
- advocating for passing
- non-binary erasure
- continued use of "man becomes a woman" phrasing without ever informing the viewer that most trans people identify as having always been their gender.

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videos being responded to...

Autogynephilia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6czRFLs5JQo
The Aesthetic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1afqR5QkDM
Pronouns - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bbINLWtMKI

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i lean heavily on "science" throughout this video, i'm now going to give you links to the relevant information...

The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.
https://www.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943

Young Trans Children Know Who They Are
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/young-trans-children-know-who-they-are/580366/

Intervening in intersexualization: the clinic and the colony
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/43865

Analysis of Human Brain Structure Reveals that the Brain “Types” Typical of Males Are Also Typical of Females, and Vice Versa
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00399/full

TEDxJaffa -- Daphna Joel -- Are brains male or female?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYpDU040yzc

Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic
https://www.pnas.org/content/112/50/15468

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“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur

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