alienist comments on 2014 Survey Results - Less Wrong

87 Post author: Yvain 05 January 2015 07:36PM

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Comment author: alienist 08 January 2015 05:28:47AM 6 points [-]

A counterfactual me who had been born female and raised to perform femaleness, but was otherwise the same,

I don't understand how this counterfactual is supposed to work. Does being born female include not having a Y chromosome and thus no SRY gene, thus no testosterone bath in the womb and the resulting cascade? If so it's unclear what you mean by "otherwise the same".

Comment author: [deleted] 10 January 2015 10:31:51AM 2 points [-]

Does being born female include not having a Y chromosome and thus no SRY gene, thus no testosterone bath in the womb and the resulting cascade?

Well yes, of course.