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Title: What Makes A Transsexual, A Transsexual?
Post by: Natasha on December 11, 2008, 05:59:05 PM
Post by: Natasha on December 11, 2008, 05:59:05 PM
What Makes A Transsexual, A Transsexual?
http://yukishock.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-makes-transsexual-transsexual.html (http://yukishock.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-makes-transsexual-transsexual.html)
Yuki Chloe
12/9/2008
The number of neurons in the BSTc of male-to-female transsexuals was similar to that of the females (P = 0.83). In contrast, the neuron number of a female-to-male transsexual was found to be in the male range. Hormone treatment or sex hormone level variations in adulthood did not seem to have influenced BSTc neuron numbers. *The present findings of somatostatin neuronal sex differences in the BSTc and its sex reversal in the transsexual brain clearly support the paradigm that in transsexuals sexual differentiation of the brain and genitals may go into opposite directions and point to a neurobiological basis of gender identity disorder*.
http://yukishock.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-makes-transsexual-transsexual.html (http://yukishock.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-makes-transsexual-transsexual.html)
Yuki Chloe
12/9/2008
The number of neurons in the BSTc of male-to-female transsexuals was similar to that of the females (P = 0.83). In contrast, the neuron number of a female-to-male transsexual was found to be in the male range. Hormone treatment or sex hormone level variations in adulthood did not seem to have influenced BSTc neuron numbers. *The present findings of somatostatin neuronal sex differences in the BSTc and its sex reversal in the transsexual brain clearly support the paradigm that in transsexuals sexual differentiation of the brain and genitals may go into opposite directions and point to a neurobiological basis of gender identity disorder*.
Title: Re: What Makes A Transsexual, A Transsexual?
Post by: Lisbeth on December 12, 2008, 11:59:33 AM
Post by: Lisbeth on December 12, 2008, 11:59:33 AM
No surprise there. The BSTc and hypthalamus seem to be the seat of our gender identity. They differentiate according to prenatal hormone levels.