Last month a study on the human brain showed that we were wrong: brain structure is not gender-specific.
If any of my followers believes that âbrain sexâ is a rigid and well defined category check this out
I actually did a study on this in my freshman year of university!
I had to give a ten minute presentation on gender and a) how itâs different from sex, and b) whether or not thereâs such thing as a âmaleâ and âfemaleâ brain.
I found COUNTLESS studies supporting the idea that the brain itself is unisex- there is very little, if any, difference between âmaleâ and âfemaleâ brains, with one exception. Iâm by no means a neuroscientist but this is what I understood from this particular article: thereâs this tiny part of the hypothalamus (a small part of the brain) that has neutrons in it, and the number of neutrons varies. HOWEVER, when the brains of cis men and women and trans men and women (who had not taken hormones for years prior to the time of death) were studied, it was found that the cis men and trans men had almost identical average neutron counts, and the cis women and trans women had almost identical average neutron counts. So if youâre DMAB but realize at some point that youâre a trans woman, as far as your brain is concerned, you ARE a woman! The same goes for DFAB trans men (intersex/nonbinary individuals werenât studied, unfortunately).
TLDR; Your brain doesnât care what you were âborn asâ, only what you really are!
Iâm currently reading a fantastic book that goes through and debunks old studies that âfind evidenceâ to support gender roles. SPOILER ALERT: they were all poorly done studies and their evidence is unsupported bullshit.
a pretty good read and a good sourceÂ
@cutiequeercris
NEUROSCIENCE DEBUNKING GENDER ESSENTIALIST SHIT YESSS
As someone who is a few months away from a degree in psychology and biology I can tell you that hard, black-and-white binaries hardly exist in either of those sciences. Putting things into clear-cut categories is 100% a human society thing, not something that actually exists in nature or in the human brain.



















