Quote from: peky on June 20, 2014, 05:35:49 PM
so, yeah, what I posted above is still pretty techie but if you dispense of the detail the gist of it is that gender identity, sexual orientation, and other gender specific behaviors and attributes, are due to hard-wired structures on the brain. This circuits are wired under the influence of drugs, hormone, and genes, in the womb, and shortly after birth.
Peky
Many thanks for both postings. The first to demonstrate authority and the second as a plain English summary.
Now I hate to ask this but I have an insatiable curiousity so will ask any way!
What are the major criticisms that were directed at this research - was it experimental method, sample size, sample selection or something more surprising!
In other studies which attempted to identify differences in brain morphology I understand that a lot of the research was based on post mortem analysis of TS brains and there was concern that the samples were too small and the brains may have already been impacted by the use of cross sex hormones. I have also heard that the imaging devices are still a little primitive.
I have read some of Allan Schorre's work on affect regulation and the paper you posted appear to be consistent with his views so I think that I am slowly understanding elements of this research.
Like Jill, at the personal level I tend to the view 'it is what it is, let's treat it' and not over think this, but I certainly see the need for 'medical and scientific evidence' to influence policy and law makers.
Unfortunately theories and paradigms just seem to take ages to be challenged, questioned, rejected and replaced. In the meantime, we wander around a little lost, confused, invalidated and not well understood.
Fascinating stuff indeed.
Sincere thanks for sharing.
Aisla
