There is a short account in Wilfred Thesiger’s book The Marsh Arabs, of the civilized way in which one society deals with transsexuality. “One afternoon, some, days after leaving Dibin, we arrived at a village on the mainland. The sheikh was away looking at his cultivations, but we were shown to his
Children who don't fit stereotypical gender profiles: female "tomboys" and effeminate boys, are now steered towards transitioning. It's the same logic, but what was once conservative is now reactionary.
All of this is also an object lesson in the failures of rationalism: logic without context.
Empiricism is a practice not a theory. The history of philosophy trumps philosophy, as the history of religion trumps religion.
Transsexuality as a category is the way many conservative societies respond to the fact of homosexuality
Iran: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29832690
India: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/01/29/india-has-outlawed-homosexuality-but-its-better-to-be-transgender-there-than-in-the-u-s/
Children who don't fit stereotypical gender profiles: female "tomboys" and effeminate boys, are now steered towards transitioning. It's the same logic, but what was once conservative is now reactionary.
All of this is also an object lesson in the failures of rationalism: logic without context.
Empiricism is a practice not a theory. The history of philosophy trumps philosophy, as the history of religion trumps religion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDJtXZ7qlY0&t=169s