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our brains have no gender

Started by mickey.megan, February 19, 2016, 09:20:54 AM

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mickey.megan

Our Brains Have No Gender

Good article:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/our-brains-have-no-gender/

PBS/Nova/Posted by Tim De Chanton Wed, 02 Dec 2015

"Some differences between men and women are pretty apparent, others are more cryptic, and still others—which scientists have searching for—are non-existent. Like our brains."
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HughE

Completely wrong. Just because a man's and a woman's brain don't look any different to the naked eye, doesn't mean that there aren't differences at the microscopic level. Decades of research on a variety of different animal species show that there are significant sex-specific differences between male and female brains, which drive many aspects of adult social and sexual behaviour (and also responses to injected hormones). Microscopic examination of transgender people's brains after death have shown that certain sexually dimorphic regions are a lot more similar to cis people's brains from the gender they identified as, rather than their birth sex. Other things that suggest there are important differences include experiences of people such as myself (who are biologically male but were prenatally exposed to synthetic female hormones, and who've had female brain development take place as a result), and people like David Reimer (who was born male but raised as female, unsuccessfully as it turned out, after his penis was destroyed during a botched circumcision).
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kira21 ♡♡♡

Come now....

"Different regions may exhibit characteristics specific to different sexes,"

"the researchers had to create a "maleness/femaleness" continuum to describe the entirety of their findings"

The report does not even claim to show that "Our Brains Have No Gender" - It claims to show that we are not binary gendered as far as they can see. "Our brains gender seems to exist on a continuum" would be a much more honest title.

What bad reporting

JLT1

They looked at grey matter and white matter....  that's it.

Kinda like looking at grass and trees with a conclusion that everything in a forest is the same but slightly different.


Horrible..

Jen
To move forward is to leave behind that which has become dear. It is a call into the wild, into becoming someone currently unknown to us. For most, it is a call too frightening and too challenging to heed. For some, it is a call to be more than we were capable of being, both now and in the future.
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