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The Larch
Jan 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

Pththya-lyi posted:

Ned, what do you make of the multiple studies suggesting that the MTF transpeople have brains more similar to those of ciswomen than to those of cismen, while FTM transpeople have brains more similar to cismen than to ciswomen, even without hormone therapy?

It's also worth pointing out that gender is not just a social construct. If it were, gender nonconformists simply wouldn't exist. People like David Reimer, who was born male but received sex reassignment surgery and was raised female after his botched circumcision, would live out their lives as women instead of identifying as male.

Sex isn't gender.

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The Larch
Jan 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
Sexual dimorphism in humans is pretty well studied. Behavioral differences between the sexes is really the only area where there's any major ambiguity.

The Larch
Jan 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

Majorian posted:

It's actually objectively verifiable that transgender people's brains function differently from cisgender people's, and in a manner that can't be written off as a mental illness.

While largely obsolete terminology in activist circles, "transsexual" does not map perfectly onto "transgender", although it is a subset of the latter.

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