can you imagine being a terf ,,, like ,,, imagine being that stupid
Imagine believing you can change your sex,,,,
imagine being ignorant of science
You canât change your sex. Thats what you were born as
itâs common phenomenon in nature to change sex. many fish often change sex to reproduce. sex and gender arenât black and white and it is not absolute
while we may not need to change sex to reproduce it is important to point out that other species do it. it is not uncommon, nor is it impossible.
can you imagine thinking people are fish ,,, like ,,, imagine being that stupid
Lmaooooooo why do they always compare humans to fishes đđđđ
idk why do you say that trans men are women and trans women are men it just doesnât make sense does it now
Because humans are humans and we are sexually dimorphic, weâre not fishes or birds or lizards and thereâs nothing in science that says just cause lizards can grew new limbs or fishes can change their sex that humans can to, what planet are yall from. Woman is the word used to describe the humans born female, so yeah transmen are female and transwomen are male, isnât that why theyâre trans? you arenât helping yourself đ
highkey disagree with that definition of woman but ok
Good thing your opinion on facts and definitions of words donât change reality and what things actually mean. Woman isnât a set of feelings, sorry
ur right
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/gender-lines-science-transgender-identity/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-new-science-of-sex-and-gender/
this is literally all iâm going to say lmao since weâre literally going to get nowhere
brain sex is a myth, if you wanna give me some actual studies instead of random biased articles id be happy to explain why, but chances are iâve already read them:
Networks of the brain reflect the individual gender identity
â The examination revealed significant differences in the microstructure of the brain connections between male and female control subjects. Transgender persons took up a middle position between both genders. â
Sounds pretty inconclusive to me, given that brains are malleable and super plastic organs that change over time in response to environmental influences. Thereâs no evidence that these people were born with brains aligned in any way with their identified sex, and if trans women really have female brains, youâd think they could do a bit better than a âmiddle positionâ since yaâll talk about having a âfemale brainâ like its an absolute concept. Also this link is only to a brief summary of the article and not the actual research so Iâm unable to comment on the sample size or any possible confounding variables.
White matter microstructure in female to male transsexuals before cross-sex hormonal treatment. A diffusion tensor imaging study
The average FTM subject in this study was 28, plenty of time for the brain to adapt and change, how is that any proof that dysphoria starts at birth? They did have higher fractional anisotropy levels than the test females, but they still werenât as high as the test males, again they were in the middle and again this is inconclusive evidence because the brain is malleable and super plastic.
Transgender: Evidence on the biological nature of gender identity
This was just a brief summary of a literature review lol this was not a research study but imma leave this right here:
â According to the researchers the article does have some limitations due to the small numbers of individuals studied and therefore conclusions should be drawn with caution. â
Androgen receptor repeat length polymorphism associated with male-to-female transsexualism.
This was a study done between MTF males and cis males with no female controls, doesnât prove anything about trans males having similar brains to females. having slightly feminized androgen receptors might make one more likely to experience dysphoria, but that  doesnât really contribute anything to the brain sex argument OR the argument that people are born with dysphoria because again, these subjects were not infants or even children. also, correlation is not the same as causation, whoâs to say these males werenât affected hormonally by these feminized androgen receptors in ways that caused them to be PERCEIVED as feminine, which then influenced their gender identity? i couldnât find the full paper anywhere so i cant comment on the methodology or controls.
Sex steroid-related genes and male-to-female transsexualism.
âTranssexuals differed from controls with respect to the mean length of the ERbeta repeat polymorphism, but not with respect to the length of the other two studied polymorphisms. Given the small number of transsexuals in the study, the results should be interpreted with the utmost caution.â
Soooooo 2/3 polymorphisms were a fail and the sample size was smol and, again, no female controls. Being born with an increased capacity for experiencing dysphoria is not the same as being born with dysphoria, and experiencing dysphoria does not make you a woman.
Sexual differentiation of the human brain: relevance for gender identity, transsexualism and sexual orientation.
âWe have found a female-sized nucleus in the sexually dimorphic central subdivision of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BSTc) in male-to-female transsexuals. Much to our surprise, however, the sex difference in BSTc volume did not become overt until adulthood.â
The CYP17â MspA1 Polymorphism and the Gender Dysphoria.
âOur data confirm a sex-dependent allele distribution of the CYP17â MspA1 polymorphism in the transsexual population, FtMâ>âMtF, suggestive of a hypothetical A2 involvement in transsexualism since the allele frequencies in the general population seem to be clearly related to geographic origin and ethnic background, but not sex.â
Not sure what this is supposed to prove since itâs talking about an allele frequency that isnât even related to biological sex in cisgendered people, it might be related to dysphoria but not in the sense that itâs a trait seen in the trans subjectsâ identified sex
A polymorphism of the CYP17 gene related to sex steroid metabolism is associated with female-to-male but not male-to-female transsexualism.
âThe MtF transsexuals had an allele distribution equivalent to male controls, whereas FtM transsexuals did not follow the gender-specific allele distribution of female controls but rather had an allele distribution equivalent to MtF transsexuals and male controls.â
Itâs interesting to me that the only group that had statistically significant findings was the group with the lowest sample size (FTMs). Also, since this is a genetic study, there are a lot of things that these subjects could have had in common other than being FTM transsexuals that could have led to the correlation. Now, genetics are actually something that youâre born with and arenât malleable, HOWEVER this only proves that this allelle distribution might make females more likely to experience gender dysphoria, Â it doesnât prove that you can be born with a gender.
Click-evoked otoacoustic emissions in children and adolescents with gender identity disorder.
Sample size here was fairly small, 24 boys and 23 girls. Given that 63% of children outgrow their GID/GD Iâm not sure what this proves, and the causation pattern isnât clear, if their androgen exposure affected their ear canals then maybe it affected them in other ways that caused them to be PERCEIVED as their identified sex, which influenced their identity. Or maybe androgen exposure increases the risk of one of the many comorbid psychiatric conditions often seen in gender nonconforming children, which makes them more susceptible to experiencing dysphoria.
Increased Cortical Thickness in Male-to-Female Transsexualism.
This is neuroanatomy study comparing MTFs to cis males with no female control. Sample size was small (24) and as Iâve mentioned, neuroanatomy can be influenced by environment.
Sex dimorphism of the brain in male-to-female transsexuals.
âThe present data do not support the notion that brains of MtF-TR are feminized.â
yup
Regional gray matter variation in male-to-female transsexualism.
âResults revealed that regional gray matter variation in MTF transsexuals is more similar to the pattern found in men than in women. However, MTF transsexuals show a significantly larger volume of regional gray matter in the right putamen compared to men. â
Soooo they are basically male brains with very slight feminization, the kind that can be caused by environmental factors, interesting
Male-to-female transsexuals show sex-atypical hypothalamus activation when smelling odorous steroids.
Sample size was 12, so thatâs strike one. Also, neurological activity patterns, as Iâve said 640673046983 times now, can be influenced by environmental factors. Even with the small sample size the MTFs âoccupied a moderate positionâ between male and female hypothalamus activation, i wonder what the results would have been with a bigger sample sizeâŠ.i wonderâŠ..
Male-to-Female Transsexuals Have Female Neuron Numbers in a Limbic Nucleus
First off, this study was done 20 years ago with 7 test subjects, bad form
Second of all, this study did not see any similarities in neuron numbers between MTFs and females until early adulthood, the earliest being 22 years old, which supports my point that any structural similarities are the result of environmental factors. the people in this study claimed to be dysphoric well before they were 22; if they were feeling dysphoric BEFORE their neurons changed, than how could the neurons be causing the dysphoria?
Third: these MTF subjects were being treated with hormone therapy, which can be shown to cause neuro-structural changes, the subjects probably had neuron levels similar to females because of the hormones they were on
A Review of the Status of Brain Structure Research in Transsexualism.
This study was done on homosexual transsexuals which is widely regarded as a no-no in brain sex science. Homosexuality does have neuroanatomical indicators and this study was probably picking up on that.
A sex difference in the hypothalamic uncinate nucleus: relationship to gender identity.
Only one of the subjects in this study hadnât had any kind of hormone therapy that could have confounded results:
âThe untreated male gender dysphoric person (S7), who took no hormones and kept transsexual feelings under wraps, appeared to have a large INAH3 volumeâin the male rangeâbut a female number of neurons.â
Again, thatâs pretty inconclusive, he aligned with males along one measure and females along another measure, and again the brain is super plastic. This study basically had a sample size of one lol. One thing I want to point out is, there may indeed be neuroanatomical contingencies that are related with transsexuality and may be indicated in its cause, that doesnât mean that people can be born with gender, it means that can be born with higher risk factors for gender dysphoria.
Transgender brains are more like their desired gender from an early age
This was done on hypothalamic responses in adolescents and again, by the time they got to that age they would have experienced environmental neural influences that could have changed their brain structure/activity patterns, even without hormones, that proves literally nothing.
This study shows that the hypothalamus and hypothalamic responses are neuroplastic and can change based on stress and early childhood experiences:
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/26/9/2434.short
This study shows that the brain as a whole remains plastic throughout ones lifetime:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5649212/
This study hypothesizes that brains, specifically trans brains, are plastic particularly in terms of sociocultural environment:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5953012/
âwe may predict that related brain changes result in human adaptation to specific sociocultural environmentsâŠHe/she imagines himself/herself in his/her preferred gender identity rather than his/her biological sex, and thus tries to adapt his/her values, lifestyle and behaviors to his/her gender identity. Therefore, a subject with GD tries to experience life in his/her preferred gender identity and skews from his/her biological gender and normal culturally contextualized behaviors every day. Depending on how much the subject with GD persists in changing his/her gender (i.e., positive, neutral or negative transgenders) and the extent to which he/she has experienced gender identity, we will observe brain changes and, as a result, related culturally voluntary behaviors â
I have to say, my most favorite thing about the above study is that it acknowledges why all the neuroanatomical studies showing SLIGHT SIMILARITIES between trans identified males and females is bullshit:
âIn general, an overview of brain morphometric and neural activity findings in transgenders demonstrates contradictory results, which cannot reflect masculinization or feminization of the transgendersâ brain"
