There is the condition where a person can have an extra X chromosome and be XXY. Or, where an XY doesn’t have their male sexuality organs fully developed. These type of anomalies seem biological to me. I guess one could argue that “normally” we have two genders, male and female, and the other situations fall outside of the norm, or what is normal. Kind of like human beings have 2 arms, 2 legs, 10 fingers, and 10 toes, but some people are born with 6 fingers on one hand, or no legs. Are they less human? Of course not. Is it necessary to categorize people by their limbs, or even by their gender? I’m not sure it needs to be such an issue.
I don’t know how woke I am, maybe I’m a 7 or 8 on a scale of 10. Maybe some people would see me lower.
I agree that very young children shouldn’t be encouraged to think about gender, and if they feel confused just let them be confused for a while. When I was 4 years old I barely knew there was a difference between boys and girls it was a non-issue. Children get locked into things because they get afraid of being in trouble, want to please their parents, have peer pressure, and all of this can lead to children not being able to change their minds, and it’s tricky for them to know who they are. I say this about all children about so many things they confront.
I absolutely believe some people at very young ages know they are gay or trans, but I also think environment can have a part, and that it’s not always, not every time, “born that way.” Sometimes yes, sometimes no, I think there are many factors.
The question of when to treat a child who feels they are the opposite gender of what they were assigned is extremely tricky to me. I’m reluctant to give hormones to anyone, any age, I’m including HRT for menopausal women, and testosterone for low T adult men. However, if the teen is extremely unhappy being the gender that biology gave them, then I can understand their need to be the other gender. I would not want to be a man, I would not want their body, the idea of it is extremely uncomfortable for me, so I assume that is what is it like for transgender people, and I have empathy for that.
I think society should have less focus on gender, and in some ways we do. The more equal the genders are, the less it comes up. We should continue down that path as a society in my opinion, but I’m not ready to say get rid of gender pronouns and societal cues altogether.
There are more people than you would think around us that have genetic anomalies regarding gender. Biological abnormalities. I once was at a lecture that gave stats on it, I don’t remember the stats, but much high than I imagined.