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That is not particularly relevant.
This is definitely true.
I think we just need to leave it in the past and create our own stories that don't have all the evil and wickedness attached to the shreds of good. The ways of ISIS are abhorrent and appalling, but yet it reads very much like the Old Testament, and all three Abrahamics do hold that book up to be holy. It's a seriously massive and heavy anchor that has us tremendously burdened and held back by the past. It's time we truly "kill god," and burn the body, weld the urn shut, and bury it in a block of cement to make sure he actually does remain dead this time. And really, the only thing that saved Jehovah that killed the Olympians is Heaven and Hell have ambiguous locations, whereas Mt. Olympus is a very specific, and even though we've "evicted" God and Satan a few times, they always just get pushed further out than previously thought before.
The weakness is clinging onto a past that belongs in the past. And, I specifically stated the Bible, and Abrahamic religions (which extends into the Quran). Not a massive lumping of all religious texts, which is a weakness itself to read one thing and turn it into another.
Do you need me to list passages demonstrating the evilness and wickedness found throughout the Bible? Do not forget, it commanded genocide, misogyny, being executed over numerous trivial offenses, and evil supports and condones slavery. It gets so bad that one of the "prophets" sent a bear to maul children to death for making fun of him and calling him "baldy." Kill the women who are old enough to have been with a man, rip open the pregnant women and tear out the unborn, and keep the young ones as sex slaves. Not even cattle are safe from the wrath and blood lust of Jehovah, who even sent his own son to die a violent and agonizing death. What of that isn't evil or wicked? Hitler has become a sort of universal symbol of evil and hatred, but his damage and death toll is a drop in the ocean compared to what Jehovah is written to have done.
I think you have a valid point here. Socially, I think a trans-man or woman should be treated as however they identify. But, technically speaking, the below definition of "female", which is the basis for the term "woman" seems to require the ability to have offspring and develop eggs.
I gather that you're a woman; what makes *you* a woman?
And your assumptions are something you should remedy yourself of.
Gender has nothing to do with hormones. Even women sometimes produce too much testosterone and men too much estrogen, but they are still women and men, respectively.
Can vouch for this being true. I am a woman with PCOS, my body in response to the cysts growing on my ovaries produces too much androgen hormones including testosterone. I build muscle very easily and, we're I so inclined, could grow a fabulous beard. But I don't have any dysphoria. My brain is not telling me my gender misaligns with my sex.
Really curious by what you mean by this post. Because accepting that humans have certain natural tendencies doesn't mean lauding antisocial behavior, especially since empathy is also an evolved prosocial trait and why we desire to find common ethical and moral ground to begin with.
The physiology is usually called sex, and the psychology called gender, to avoid confusion between the two. Hormones impact physical sex, but they aren't what causes gender disassociation.