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[–]Sun_bear 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This review claims the book says gender is innate and male brains are fundamentally different to female brains, I was under the impression this had been comprehensively debunked, can any scientists on here weigh in?

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    [–]GConly 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    at a rate higher than chance but it's still not an exact science. And TIMs brains often display the same patterns as those of gay males

    It's about 95% plus, only the gay ones are a bit tricky.

    TIMs have brains normal for their sex plus sexual orientation. The heterosexual ones have normally masculinised brains.

    In heterosexual male-to-female transsexuals, the difference may not involve sex-dimorphic structures at all, and the nature of the structural difference is not necessarily along the male–female dimension.

    Contrary to the primary hypothesis, no sex-atypical features with signs of ‘feminization’ were detected in the transsexual group….The present study does not support the dogma that [male-to-female transsexuals] have atypical sex dimorphism in the brain” although that statement should have been restricted to refer to heterosexual male-to-female transsexuals only.