Matt Walsh on Dr Phil.

But gender is merely a thing of the mind right? Here is my problem. If a person claims that their gender (a societal construct which advocates are keen to distinct from sex which is said to be physical) is wrong, why do they do to change their bodies? If they change their bodies, that means they change their biology which is sex, not gender. 

1. That would be them expressing themselves.

2. Biological sex is more than genitalia. 

What are they expressing? If they are expressing gender (a non biological thing in the mind), why do they need surgery? What happened to gender not having anything to do with biology? What's with the alteration of the body then?

It is - it's a plethora of factors. 

What are they expressing? If they are expressing gender (a non biological thing in the mind), why do they need surgery? What happened the gender not gaving anything to do with biology? What's with the alteration of the body then?

If you are referring to transgender people, "changing your gender" is disingenuous. As I have explained, there is no "changing of gender" which occurs, they do not suddenly "become" the gender they identify as. They discover that they are indeed that gender, now, you might make an argument about changing one's phenotypical sexual features or "sex" but that is entirely different and does not correlate with this situation. 

The proper time to come out as trans is whenever you genuinely discover your gender identity. Sometimes you aren't right, most times people are, and I'm not willing to let all of the people who could be helped by pro-trans legislation get hurt because of the extreme extreme outlier.

Why do people sometimes have panic attacks when it comes to harmless spiders or snakes? Because the brain is not always rational, because sometimes societal expectations label themselves onto them, and - this is important - gender expression is unique to the individual. Which is to say some people feel like to express that they individually are male they have to do x or y. The big problem is when you expose your own individual gender expression on other people, because this causes this dehabilitating effect. 

How would you have responded to Matt's question of what do you define as a women? From my perspective, it seems that you are defining gender as broadly as you can, so that anyone can morph into, or in your terms, discover their gender. Do you not think that a term such as "sex", of which is grounded in biology, is more stable? 

I don't think a successful transition indicates anything regarding the empirical status of a being. What do you think of trans-speciesism? Does not your stance allow for the switching of species? Mere thought does not, in my opinion, have the weight to alter biology. 

This is a false equivalence. Phobias and other anxiety disorders are caused by some type of dysfunction in the amygdala and related brain areas. Trans activists do not believe there is anything dysfunctional about transgendered people. Moreover, when someone switches their gender, there is no inspection on whether there are any biological ties to the reason they believe they are the opposite gender. If you have a phobia, there is a quantifiable and understandable reason for your reaction. 

How would you have responded to Matt's question of what do you define as a women? From my perspective, it seems that you are defining gender as broadly as you can, so that anyone can morph into, or in your terms, discover their gender. Do you not think that a term such as "sex", of which is grounded in biology, is more stable? 

Nope, because gender is grounded in biology as well

your mind is as biologic as your junk, thats something that needs to be expressed very clearly. What being a woman is, is how you experience it, it seems to me like you are trying to needlessly narrow it. But I always priortize the brain to the junk, sorry buddy. 

I said that this is a discovery, which does not imply change. You have misunderstood as a very fundamental level.

I have said that you discover your gender does not match and ought to be priortized.

This is a false equivalence. Phobias and other anxiety disorders are caused by some type of dysfunction in the amygdala and related brain areas. Trans activists do not believe there is anything dysfunctional about transgendered people. Moreover, when someone switches their gender, there is no inspection on whether there are any biological ties to the reason they believe they are the opposite gender. If you have a phobia, there is a quantifiable and understandable reason for your reaction. 

You have utterly missed the point of the analogy. I am a trans activist, once again "switched" is the wrong verb here, you have truly learned nothing.

But I'll explain this before ending the conversation. The point of the analogy was to point out how it depends on individual experience and how what seems irrational or unintuitive for one person is not for another.

I would reccomend trying to look a bit deeper. 

Nope, because gender is grounded in biology as well - your mind is as biologic as your junk, thats something that needs to be expressed very clearly. What being a woman is, is how you experience it, it seems to me like you are trying to needlessly narrow it. But I always priortize the brain to the junk, sorry buddy. 

Or maybe it's because men only care about what other men are doing because it's some sort of macho b*******.

No one knows exactly what causes gender dysphoria. Some experts believe that hormones in the womb, genes, and cultural and environmental factors may be involved. I think that in the future, scientists will find that it is due to damaged pathways in the brain (brain lesions).

One of my best friends who was an athlete and a weight lifter was gay. He ended up committing suicide.