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[โ€“] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

I don't know about that. I think the reasons they give would sound external like that, but they can sound that way from a trans person too. And ask about something more significant, like

what if you didn't have a penis anymore? Say you could still have sex and babies, but didn't have a penis. How would you feel about that?

A cis man would be pretty affected by that, and he wouldn't attribute that to societal pressure. I contend that at the very least there is some misattribution when most cis people put the entirety of their gender identity on external factors.

Either way, I fully agree that it's something that research can answer in a way discussion never will. Whether and to what degree that research has happened, is happening, or ever will happen I can't say.