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TheLight said: But isn't it that which is physical more real than that whitch we feel?
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Actually, in a way, it's not.
I've recently read a study about outer body expieriences and what it comes down to, is that your brain identifies a hallucination as your real body instead of your physical one, creating a powerfull illusion of being at two places at once. For the people expieriencing it, it's real though. They feel alienated from heir own body in these cases, which often leads to extreme panick. One of the patients in the study had actually jumped out of a third story window in order to try and allign his bodys again.
Here comes the kicker though, this is replicable. They showed the control group VR representations of themselves from the back, wich acted with exactly the same movements as they did. It caused their brains to initiate outer body expieriences, identifying more strongly with the virtual body than their physical one.
The reason this is happening and is also replicable, is that your brain has a virtual representation of your body at all times. It acts as a sort of interface to allow your mind to interact with your physical form. This includes all of your body parts that should be present, ergo also your gender.
The discrepancy between sex and gender felt by trans people is similar to the discrepancy felt between their mind and their physical body when people have out of body experiences. Their brain keeps telling them they are something that does not allign with their physical body, but to them it's reality. With our current level of medicine, we can 'fix' their bodys for them, but have no means of altering the brains they were born with to align with their physical sex.
