Quote from: Sylvester on February 06, 2011, 12:25:17 PM
I might.  Not for myself, but just so that if someone tried to tell me I'm not trans I could prove them wrong.

This exactly. If it came back female, so what? That doesn't change how I feel. If it came back male, I could use it to prove that I'm male.

Quote from: Yakshini on February 10, 2011, 10:28:43 PM

This exactly. If it came back female, so what? That doesn't change how I feel. If it came back male, I could use it to prove that I'm male.

Yup same here.

Same for me

Quote from: Yakshini on February 10, 2011, 10:28:43 PM

This exactly. If it came back female, so what? That doesn't change how I feel. If it came back male, I could use it to prove that I'm male.

More likely if it came back female, you would be denied HRT or any other service and relegated back to the mentally ill portion of life.  NO THANKS!

I like pretty pictures, I just might take it.

I wouldn't care too much about the outcome though. I'm pretty happy the way I am. And since it's a test, it also implies that there is an error-margin and confidence intervals etc. Knowing myself, I might again be the odd case out (the outlier).

Quote from: LordKAT on February 11, 2011, 01:11:38 AM
More likely if it came back female, you would be denied HRT or any other service and relegated back to the mentally ill portion of life.  NO THANKS!

You know, if it proved that my problem was a mental illness, then maybe they could fix that, and I could live happily ever after...

Yes, it'd freak me the ->-bleeped-<- out for a while, but the point of diagnosis IS NOT to tag you as crazy, it's to identify the problem so that it's easier to fix it.

The only way to correct a problem is to first identify the problem. If the problem is a psychological delusion then.. maybe anti-psychotics would be all it takes to make my life better.
I don't know, it seems easier than surgeries and needles and hormones in oil and so on.

I would take it because I would be curious. I actually have a picture of my brain, don't know how to analyze it though.

Personally, I couldn't care less what a brain scan says.  Being a mother and a wife, my life proves more than anything that I'm female.  I don't need a brain scan to tell me what I already know.

I think you will find that what such a test will show is that there are a range of different aspects of the brain which can be "male" like or "female" like and most people will have a complicated mixture of both in the same brain.

So you could have a male like way of thinking, but a female like set of emotions, or a female like body image, and a male like sexuality. In other words different parts of the brain may resemble one gender extreme or the other, and the combined effect will be that vast range of human personalities that we seen in real life. My mother, for example was very androgyne like in her practical outlook and quite forceful personality, but she had no desire to alter her body.

That means that this is unlikely to be a simple yes/no answer. What it will do instead is help to show which areas of your identity are likely to be affected. For me it was mainly about my physical body image.

The good news is that such tests are indeed on their way, and yes I would take them because I am confident of the results, and I believe they might have made my path to SRS easier.

I'd be curious and would try it but It wouldn't stop me if it came out male unless people can somehow suggest what I might have instead and an alternative treatment option to try because my behavior prior to transition was clearly not normal.

normal stable people don't try and kill themselves or self harm for 9 years. like a friend of mine who is bipolar but she dose quite well on anti-schizophrenia medication.