Mat Ayan

I have a new theory on the origin of an individual's sexuality: Rather than merely correlating with the male- or female-typical behaviours influenced by (a lack of) prenatal androgenisation of the brain, I'd say the male- or female-typical sexuality is itself influenced by them.

@Herenotthere5 Aristotle deserves the absolute least respect that is due to a philosopher.

All due respect to Aquinas and Aristotle.

René Girard is smart. Be like René Girard :)

All is poetry, nought is prose. When poetry is read as prose, man forsakes understanding for illusory knowledge.

Man forgets to practice, and man merely repeats. Man forgets to think, and man merely nods. Man forgets to listen, and man merely speaks. Man knows, but man does not realise.

Man creates symbols and stories to dispense complex truths in a digestible manner to the masses. Practice into intuition, rather than raw knowledge into intuition. But man's impatient thirst for certainty often leads him to register those symbols themselves as the ultimate truth

I imagine the book would explain that it's a combination of both.

@elegationvain @PauleyJ8 @DivineDeadlock What is sexuality that we are so sure it's immutable? Studies show that aversion therapy is not reliable at converting homosexuality to heterosexuality, but that does not mean that there aren't other treatments or settings that would be reliable.

@PauleyJ8 @DivineDeadlock There isn't a cure. It's a sexuality. That's why I talk about "solutions", not "cures". All we can do is find ways of mitigating it's negative impact, personally & societally.

End of gender ideology means understanding what GD actually is- all signs point to autoheterosexuality, usually caused by ASD (aka A*P)- rather than the mythical belief in cross sex souls & default medical/legal reification of that mythical belief. There’s no cure for A*P though.

@femoit13 Logically, a path towards desistance should be prioritised. Will this result in the dismissal of their currently held value hierarchy? Yes. But we have a duty to safeguard the long-term value hierarchies of children even if it means denying them immediate gratification.

@femoit13 In this scenario, desistance is obviously preferable, since this would mitigate gender dysphoria (as transition would) in such a way that the risks of transition are avoided.

📢Puberty blockers “lock in” transgender identity and drive further medicalization, argues Professor Michael Biggs, Oxford University. They sustain social transition and lead to cross hormones in >90% of cases. /1 #PubertyBlockers #gendermedicine

@BetaPhD I say it's valuable work.

The most fascinating (and theoretically interesting) case reports I have collected so far are still sitting in my drafts. Do you guys like reading the case reports I publish? Do you like reading the stories of people with seemingly bizarre and unheard-of kinks?

@femoit13 I feel you're not weighting the iatrogenicity at all. And if the quality of life improvements from early transition were as evidenced as I think your argument relies on, I wouldn't be contesting you here.

@femoit13 There is indeed a value hierarchy, but these are not equally weighted on the scale, wouldn't you agree? The risk profile of one is greater than the other's, but the benefits are similarly low-evidence. Persistence is difficult to predict, and very possibly iatrogenic.

This type of meme (see screenshot) is intuitively appealing, but one can just as easily flip it. People who can defend themselves physically (high-T men, fighters) parse information through a dominance filter as a status mechanism. They literally do not ask “is this true,” they ask “does believing this make me look strong?” This makes them very malleable to brute-force strongman narratives; if a confident, aggressive figure says something, they will adopt that position because their brain interprets dominance signals as credibility. Only people unburdened by status competition — women, cooperative men, and neurotypical people skilled at reading social complexity — are actually free to update their beliefs based on evidence, because they don’t experience changing their mind as a humiliation. This is why diverse, deliberative democracies outperform autocracies and oligarchies in long-run decision-making. Inclusive, but with institutions that slow down impulsive dominance-driven thinking. — But both the original and my reversal are, of course, only stories when absent data. And data could easily be found for both sides, precisely because they’re just stories — vibes designed to appeal to you by placing you above the outgroup. Such stories can be useful, they often generate ideas for empirical research. But don’t mistake the latter for the former because it makes you feel good. In fact, if it makes you feel good, you should probably question the narrative.

@DrNWLuna @JuliaMasonMD1 @thepearjoseph It's better, it's just that it's more morally inconsistent as well. Upheld more by tradition and the realities of yesterday than the reality of today.

@JuliaMasonMD1 @thepearjoseph That's a whole lot better than eating animals which had sad mistreated lives. I turned vegetarian at 16 after seeing our family's cow get butchered, but I don't proselytize.

Out of all the bizarre things meat eaters say to try to justify their choices, the “I only kill and eat happy animals” argument is by far the strangest and most backwards.

@thepearjoseph The skew in views on meat eating in the gender sphere really shows in the numbers on this tweet, huh? A real shame that veganism got lumped against the whole anti-woke crusade that swept up GCs back in the day.

... when you make man and woman into the same thing, so that the man is not a man nor the woman a woman, when you replace eyes with eyes, hands with hands, feet with feet, and an image with an image, then you will enter the Kingdom.”

Jesus was against gender norms: "When you make what is two into one, and make what is outside like what is inside and what is inside like what is outside, and make what is above like what is below, and...