Maybe it's a bias because i've been involuntarily exposed to more conservative people and their influence but
> But how is it, in our modern age of reason, that otherwise-rational people can believe something so absurd as that science can change someone’s sex?
Put the doctors aside, Count the amount of religious people in the current world, and what they believe and mix it with deeply ingrained systemic sexism. Something like you mention makes perfect sense by comparison. It's like, "why would they not believe it? I mean look at our society pff!"
Very true, it’s a fantastical form of wishful thinking, co-created by the medical establishment and by patients themselves neither of whom, for the most part, wish to look reality in the face: one’s sex can no more be transcended than many diseases can, or mortality itself. But seasoned doctors, nurses and patients who’ve suffered through oversold treatments do generally see through it.
Maybe it's a bias because i've been involuntarily exposed to more conservative people and their influence but
> But how is it, in our modern age of reason, that otherwise-rational people can believe something so absurd as that science can change someone’s sex?
Put the doctors aside, Count the amount of religious people in the current world, and what they believe and mix it with deeply ingrained systemic sexism. Something like you mention makes perfect sense by comparison. It's like, "why would they not believe it? I mean look at our society pff!"
And PhizerModerna is a god...
Very true, it’s a fantastical form of wishful thinking, co-created by the medical establishment and by patients themselves neither of whom, for the most part, wish to look reality in the face: one’s sex can no more be transcended than many diseases can, or mortality itself. But seasoned doctors, nurses and patients who’ve suffered through oversold treatments do generally see through it.