Thank you, that’s some great reading. Very… dense haha I’m far from a biologist or scientist of any kind so I’m doing quite a bit of googling but some great info in there
Before people start thinking there is an innately male or female brain, please remember that environmental conditions including social ones influence the way the brain is structured due to neuroplasticity.
And think about how boys are encouraged to eat and girls are encouraged to watch their weight, and how child body growth relies on building up periodic fat reserves in order to happen, and you need to eat a lot of protein when building muscle mass, and what the physical implications for that are and how it contributes to our social definition of sex. And how that contributes to cis women being more vulnerable to physical violence.
To be fair, we are just brains in meat suits. Brains adjust their physical structures to integrate with their tools efficiently. This is proven in imaging studies of those skilled in use of a particular tool (ex fencers) and likely extends to the abstract (ex feral children having underdevelopment of some brain structures).
So, it makes sense that something with large potential social impact like gender only makes sense to impact structure.
They’ve actually found that trans individuals have brain structures that match their identity rather than their sex at birth.
So while the way genders are supposed to act is a social construct, gender is very much biological as well.
The truth is at this stage we don’t fully understand it.
I’d love to learn more about that, do you have a source I can go to read more?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_gender_incongruence
Thank you, that’s some great reading. Very… dense haha I’m far from a biologist or scientist of any kind so I’m doing quite a bit of googling but some great info in there
That doesn’t back up your claim at all, the evidence is still incredibly weak and the sample sizes are all very small
Sample sizes can only get so big when studying less than a percentage of the population
Considering the only evidence the other camp has is “the Bible” and “their feels,” Ima take it. 🤷
It does back up my claim we’ve found evidence of it in trans people. I also explicitly said we don’t understand it yet.
Before people start thinking there is an innately male or female brain, please remember that environmental conditions including social ones influence the way the brain is structured due to neuroplasticity.
And think about how boys are encouraged to eat and girls are encouraged to watch their weight, and how child body growth relies on building up periodic fat reserves in order to happen, and you need to eat a lot of protein when building muscle mass, and what the physical implications for that are and how it contributes to our social definition of sex. And how that contributes to cis women being more vulnerable to physical violence.
To be fair, we are just brains in meat suits. Brains adjust their physical structures to integrate with their tools efficiently. This is proven in imaging studies of those skilled in use of a particular tool (ex fencers) and likely extends to the abstract (ex feral children having underdevelopment of some brain structures).
So, it makes sense that something with large potential social impact like gender only makes sense to impact structure.