I freaking knew something like this would happen!

My parents listened to this advice and made us pack up in the middle of the night and drive half-way across the U.S.

I spent the next ~8 years more or less being hidden away from the world. I received no education and rarely left the places they were staying.

Also, some homeschooling organizations seemingly encourage stuff like this!

A lawyer from the HSLDA once advised my father to flee the state to avoid CPS, who were investigating my parents for suspected sexual abuse.

In addition, homeschooling can involve taking funds once used in social services such as public schools and giving them to private entities. For instance, see school voucher programs in Florida.

After that, I spent ~8 years more or less being completely hidden away from the world.

That organization once advised my father to flee the state we were living in to avoid CPS, who were investigating my parents for suspected sexual abuse.

My father proceeded to do just that. He made us pack up in the middle of the night and drove us halfway across the U.S.

Schrödinger's ex-homeschool students. They simultaneously do and don't exist. They both pose a growing threat to the HSLDA's goals and are a fiction depending on what's the more convenient narrative at the time.

Which is why I find it infuriating when they appeal to "biology" to support their transphobia

I prefer processual ontologies.

All of this is to say that these transphobes presuppose metaphysical ideas that I find harm to square with contemporary sciences and naturalized metaphysics.

Also, there aren't really "things" in contemporary sciences imo. Phenomena are explained in terms of their relations and the phenomena in question are more like patterns or processes

If there are macro things with causal power that aren't composed of smallwr with causal power, that seemingly implies different ontological levels

If macro things don't have causal power, then they're in a sense superfluous, just a heuristic

If there are macro things with causal power that aren't composed of smallwr with causal power, that seemingly implies different ontological levels

If macro things don't have causal power, then they're in a sense superfluous, just a heuristic

These sorts of substance ontologies arguably violate causal closure of the physical and/or physicalism

If there are things with causal power composed of smaller things with causal power, that seemingly implies overdetermination.

Further, it presupposes an ontology based on substances that I think is hard to square with naturalized metaphysics and contemporary sciences

Setting aside the ethical and political issues with this, the trouble is that this move does little to actually explain the phenomenon in question. Saying X is caused by a certain kind of macro thing is rather mysterious and it's unclear how to empirically test this idea