Trans Memes

Peggle Extreme.

Nobody knows why trans happens, but one of the popular theories is that differences in hormones in the womb affect the development of the brain.

Note that estrogen and testosterone have different effects on people of different preferred genders. You ask any community of trans women, you'll meet plenty who couldn't cry from first puberty until they started HRT. That's a difference in how the brain responds to sex hormones. Men can cry on testosterone just fine, but many trans women can't. The way hormones interact with emotions has a link to preferred gender. So that's proposed as evidence for the theory.

Of course, gender fluidity challenges that theory, since we now know gender can change, and that different people differ in how often theirs can change. But perhaps there's a chemical event during development that affects how easily gender changes.

One of the biggest obstacles to reaching a consensus is that the word "gender" is used interchangeably to refer to identity, preference, neurology, and social roles. We of course know that all of those can differ, thanks to eggs and the process of transition.

But the meme doesn't have time for all that nuance, and the mother's question in the meme already demonstrates a literacy on the subject far greater than expected. Which sets up the rug pull that the true answer is silly quite expertly.