Resources/articles on de-bunking the biological or neurological reasons for being trans.

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jeaux90 · 20/05/2025 08:41

I am openly GC, on Facebook and at work etc. I am in tech which to date has been a bit of a cesspool for Gender Ideology.

Feels like since the SC ruling some old arguments are coming back up around brain scans showing TW have similar brains to females, or there is a biological reason for it.

Anyone have good/recent studies or articles on this?

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Seethlaw · 20/05/2025 09:23

eatfigs · 20/05/2025 09:02

https://x.com/NeuroSGS/status/1549324206437011458 (nitter link)

This is a good Twitter thread which explains the research and the problem that most of these brain studies have in not controlling for confounding variables like sexual orientation and hormone treatment.

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"It’s been shown that individuals with GD show weaker structural & functional connectivity within the default mode network (DMN) of the brain, which is vital for body perception/image and self referential processing."

Now that sounds relevant to me as a trans person! An anomaly in body perception/image is exactly how I would describe my gender dysphoria.

redsplodge · 20/05/2025 09:08

I also don't have a link to the studies, but from memory of the one I read most about, the difference was in one area of the brain. So if it was argued that one area of the brain is a factor in determining sex, how relevant is it when all the other biological markers show a person to be the other sex?

But crucially for me, a biological basis for being trans (should one be found) is just that - a biological basis for being trans. It does not mean a person is biologically the other sex.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/05/2025 09:06

Yes, another good explanation here https://www.theparadoxinstitute.com/read/debunking-the-brain-sex-hypothesis-excerpt-from-binary

Debunking the “Brain Sex Hypothesis” — Excerpt from Binary — Paradox Institute

Activists claim that trans-identified people have opposite sex brains. But what does the science actually say? The following is an excerpt from the book, Binary.

https://www.theparadoxinstitute.com/read/debunking-the-brain-sex-hypothesis-excerpt-from-binary

eatfigs · 20/05/2025 09:02

https://x.com/NeuroSGS/status/1549324206437011458 (nitter link)

https://x.com/NeuroSGS/status/1549324206437011458

MagpiePi · 20/05/2025 08:55

If there were reliable evidence that there were physical reasons for being trans it would have been front and centre of all the arguments. I think the lack speaks for itself.

Justme56 · 20/05/2025 08:53

I don’t, but I do think that once it was suggested that if brains were different it would be useful to do these scans prior to any gender affirming care, some started to have second thoughts about its promotion.

alsoFanOfNaomi · 20/05/2025 08:49

I don't - but I think the right response is "so what?". So what if it were shown that statistically, as a group, trans identified males differ from other males in some subtle aspect of their brain? They differ in much larger and more obvious ways from women.

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