Why Are People Trans?

The first 1,000 people to use my link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/lilyalexandre06233 For 30 years, scientists have searched for a biological cause of trans identity... and haven't found much. Why do we want to find a cause, anyway – and how do we handle the questions science can’t answer? Support the channel on Patreon:   / lily_lxndr   Twitter:   / lily_lxndr   Instagram:   / lily_lxndr   Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/lily_lxndr – Sources: (Why are people trans?) Ultrasounds & sex-selective abortion https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar... Mara Hvistendahl, "Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men" India's ban on sex screening https://shorturl.at/kmqxE China's ban on sex screening https://shorturl.at/aiLNO (What we're really asking) Laura Erickson-Schroth, "Update on the Biology of Transgender Identity" Rachel N. Levin & Laura Erickson-Schroth, "Biological studies of transgender identity: A critical review" Milton Diamond, "Transsexuality Among Twins: Identity Concordance, Transition, Rearing, and Orientation" Leslie Feinberg, "Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come" https://www.workers.org/books2016/Fei... Zhaawano Giizhik on Ojibwe Two-Spirit history and identity (excellent page!) https://shorturl.at/bfwO6 (Creation myths) T. L. Brink, Victoria Karalun, "Narratives: The Focus of 21st Century Psychology" Jerome Bruner, "Actual Minds, Possible Worlds" Richard Harries, "After the Evil: Christianity and Judaism in the Shadow of the Holocaust", pgs 38-47 Kalonymus ben Kalonymus ben Meir, "Prayer for Transformation" (excerpt from "Even Bohan") https://shorturl.at/dmKX3 Rachel Pollack, "Archetypal Transsexuality" (READ THIS!!) https://web.archive.org/web/200807051... – Further reading/viewing: My video on Kentucky Route Zero and objective truth    • Finding Hope in Kentucky Route Zero   Andrei Tarkovsky's movies "Solaris" and "Stalker" Mao Zedong, "On Contradiction" https://www.marxists.org/reference/ar... Carl Jung, "Commentary on 'The Secret of the Golden Flower'" Aristotle's "four causes" https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ar... – Table of contents: 0:00 Gone, it's gone forever 1:09 Why are people trans? 6:43 What we're really asking 14:52 Creation myths 23:18 On trans divinity 26:47 Skillshare 27:47 Credits