Trans: A Scientific View For a long time, the mainstream of the trans community generally understood the condition of gender dysphoria in terms of biological science. This understanding has encouraged scientific research into gender dysphoria, and also gradually increased the public’s understanding.
However, in recent years, this foundation has been increasingly shaken, from attacks of two main types. Firstly, there are the reactionary forces which argue for the invalidity of gender dysphoria, using oversimplified and often outdated models of biological science. And then, there are those who seek to justify the trans phenomenon from a place of radical philosophy and postmodernism, rather than science. These radical philosophers are effectively willing to concede the scientific ground to the reactionaries, because they themselves believe that the scientific method is oppressive, because of influence from postmodernists like Michel Foucault. In turn, the reactionaries are more than happy to paint all trans people with the irrational, postmodernist brush. Therefore, these two factions effectively reinforce the views of each other, eroding the scientific foundation for understanding gender dysphoria every time they trade blows.
Here, we will seek to re-establish the biological scientific understanding of gender dysphoria. We will examine the 105
