Are Chimps Conscious of Sex and Gender — If So, Can They Be Trans?
Or are humans alone during Pride Month?
When I mull over life, it seems wild that anything exists. I’m trans, so I wonder what it means to be trans, and that’s wild too.
I mean, you’re born into the body you’re born into, right? In a world driven purely by surface-based logic, gender should be immutable.
Except we live in a world driven by the illogical and the unlikely. The mere existence of humanity itself is a percentile of a percentile brought about by uncountable coincidences. A few billion years back, there were equally slim chances of the Earth ever developing into a habitable planet.
In such a complex system, some wires were bound to get a little crossed along the way.
Human biology is no less complicated. A slot machine, powered by your parents’ genetics, sifted through a universe of possibilities and conceived you. Some people feel gender incongruence. That isn’t merely believable — it’s inevitable.
The reason why there’s plenty of disbelief, pushback, and discrimination thrown our way is because our state of existence is, to a lot of people, not understandable. The ones who seek to tread upon us function off the assumption of the default; they sometimes, not always…