[bryony]

Byrony, how do you feel about your posts if you were to go through them and everywhere you used the word disorder, replace it with variation? Because the disorder word carries all the things with it that make this kind of judgement wrong. The word disorder reinforces the right verus wrong component of the argument. Genetically, a disorder would be something that prevents or impairs survival of the organism. A variation may or may not preseve the status quo, including "breeding true".

Unfortunately, that isn't really part of what I am getting at. I've explained it in my earlier reply to you.

It just seems to me that whenever one repressive orthodoxy is destroyed another rises to replace it. In the 21st century we still have sections of society trying to legislate through peer pressure how we should behave.

It used to be that people who did not conform to cultural norms were stigmatised. These attitudes have been broken down, which was a good thing, but now subcultures have formed post-normal "norms", so that, for example, if you have a "TS brain" for want of a better description, there is a new post-normal "cultural norm" that we are expected to conform to.

My problem is that I reject such constraints. I think that the wish to conform to the old cultural norm is now the new radicalism, and that seems to be what puts people's backs up!

Enough for now!

B.