MilSpecs wrote:Are you saying that we should attempt to fit our psyches to our bodies, rather than the other way around? In other words, the approach would be "This is the body you have, your gender is what it is, how best to fit them together rather than attempt to change either one?" Or am I misunderstanding?
It's about integrating mind and body rather than saying that the one should determine the other.
Both the idea that your biological gender should determine your psyche (as feminine or masculine) and the idea that your psyche should determine your physical gender (i.e. gender identity should lead to surgical and endocrinological conversion to the opposite biological gender) are forms of determinism that are offensive to the person as a whole.
I ascribe to the idea of finding an integration without this form of determinism. A persons way of being may not conform to any specific stereotype but it should emerge as an acceptance of one's biological and psychological reality.