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If someone kidnapped you and surgically altered your body so that your physiology was now female, would you be really be a woman? Would you think of yourself as a woman, or as a man who had been surgically altered?
Again, this assumes gender is biological, not social and cultural. The idea that any human behavior is genetically programmed is poorly supported by evidence. The field of epigenetics is demonstrating how genes are themselves altered by the social and natural environment, and even where behaviors are clearly genetically influenced, as with schizophrenia, it is the social environment that determines the behavioral manifestations of the condition. In cultures with shamanistic traditions, schizophrenics are highly valued.
