re: Transgender kids’ brains resemble their gender identity, not their biological sex

Interesting. So hormones have no effect on brains and thoughts. I knew it all along.

Science!

needs more study. The brain can change its structure or area of activity by any number of things. Meditation, psychotherapy, drug use, exercise, trauma, etc all change the neural network in the brain.

not arguing for or against either side but using this as evidence to encourage a lifestyle that a child may not want when they're older is risky

I call bullshite. What do we know about "Julie Bakker of the University of Liege"? What is her ax to grind? Her views/opinions could be motivating her "findings". Just because she says it, doesn't mean it is true!

So it’s a mental retardation?

No shite.

[img] transgender boys’ brain activity resembled cisgender boys’, and transgender girls’ brains resembled cisgender girls[/img]


Can someone explain what this means?

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Stopped reading.

From what I’ve heard there’s more to it than that. Bruce Jenner says he felt like he was always in the wrong body. Not just in the wrong clothes.

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So boys and girls have differences in brains? I thought we were all equal.

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Analysis of around 160 participants showed that biological males with gender dysphoria - the experience of discomfort or distress due to their biological sex - had a brain structure and neurological patterns similar to biological females, and vice versa.

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So women and people who think they are women think differently from Men. I think we've been saying this all along, but we were told there was no difference. But now all of a sudden there is. So were you lying to us then or now?

Right.

I’d bet the true causation lies in personality type, not transgenderism.

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I've seen em, and I keep on walking and never think about it after. Strange.

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I don’t know, but the topic keeps coming up.

Look y’all, I’m trans. I’ve known I was different since I was 7 and finally put all the pieces together at 13. I’ve said it before in multiple threads in the last couple of months. I was in Baton Rouge last week for my grandmother’s funeral and was scared shitless about being out and about.

You know what happened going outside to places in BR? Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Went to Goodwood hardware, Calvin’s, Superior, Sammy’s and Top Golf and nobody said or did anything weird (except on girl staring a bit at Top Golf). Nobody cared (or maybe they did, I don’t know).

But everyone was cool in BR when I had preconceived notions that they weren’t going to be. That made me feel nice as BR is where I was born, lived for a bit and still have a boatload of family.

Listen, I just want to live my life as normally as humanly possible. Just like everyone else.