Well known center-right economic commentator just came out as a woman

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I’ve unmistakably known I was transgender since the age of 4. Medical scans and examinations have since confirmed my predominantly female brain biology, along with other biological characteristics that have countered my outwardly male appearance.

While being “myself” with family and close friends, I’ve essentially had to roleplay a different gender professionally. This made me so awkward and nervous in work settings that I have long preferred to work from home, and to avoid work-related receptions, banquets, and happy hours. So, with my family’s encouragement, I finally aligned my outward physical appearance with the rest of myself.

I’m not an activist and I’m more moderate on transgender policy issues. But I’m also not naïve about the intense abuse and demonization my community endures from politicians, demagogues, and bullies who defend themselves by dismissing transgenderism as some made-up mental delusion with no legitimate biological basis. Too many adults still cling to their 10th grade biology teacher’s (purposely) over-simplified summary that XX versus XY chromosomes cleanly determine all subsequent male or female biological and gender development.

Students who continue in biology and related fields learn that each person’s genes contain a full blueprint for both male and female development. And while the vast majority of humans still develop consistently male or female in the womb, approximately one percent of people trigger genes, chromosomes, hormones, and/or physical/brain developments that cross between the two sexes (and who do not always meet a strict definition of intersex either). Examples include being chromosomally female but hormonally male. Or—because the genitals and the brain implement their sex instructions during different trimesters—following first trimester male genital development with third trimester female brain development, due likely to chemical changes in the womb in between those points. For a sample of the research on the (very real) biology of transgenderism, from basic overviews to dense medical studies, see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and

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