Deirdre McCloskey isn’t a woman: wishing can’t make it so, not even wishing and flashing scalpels. Neither is Joan Roughgarden. What they are is crazy.
“transgender” people aren’t: they’re just crazy. Whittling doesn’t change the wiring of the brain, or the chromosomes. But in principle, such a transformation is possible. It would be an example of real, deep biological change – not the the tinkering at the margins we’re actually on the verge of.
Ordover
Nancy Ordover mentioned Cochran’s work in American Eugenics:
References
Cochran, Gregory (April 21, 2016). Metamorphosis. West Hunter. https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2016/04/21/metamorphosis/
Cochran, Gregory. An Evolutionary Look at Human Homosexuality. http://zero.poynt.zero.googlepages.com/home
Hopper, Judith (February 1998). A New Germ Theory (Part Two). The Atlantic. pp. 41–53. [archive] https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/99feb/germ2.htm
Crain, Caleb (1999). Did a germ make you gay? Out Magazine. pp. 46–49 https://books.google.com/books?id=imIEAAAAMBAJ&q=gay%20germ&pg=PA46
