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[–]GConly 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I'm sorry but her first book, Delusions of Gender, is a great example of how to omit any research that disagrees with your argument.

It misses out huge chunks of modern research at prenatal androgens affecting animal behaviour and neurological development. Scientists were observing testosterone in embryos affects adult animal aggression, sexuality and play behaviour for decades.

She also tries to claim that girls with CAH only act in a masculine fashion because they get mistaken for boys at an early stage... This is just wrong. Virtually all of them are spotted at birth.

She also ignores boys who have no external male genitalia who get raised as girls. This group usually gets spotted as male long before puberty because of their behaviour. Everyone thinks they are female as kids, socialisation cannot be a factor here.

[–]anonymale[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

She also tries to claim that girls with CAH only act in a masculine fashion because they get mistaken for boys at an early stage... This is just wrong. Virtually all of them are spotted at birth.

I'm pressed for time so will just say that her treatment of the research on foetal androgens and children with CAH seems much more nuanced than the way you present it here. She writes in ch. 11 of DoG:

In short, we just don’t know what’s going on.

With regard to detection of CAH in girls, she writes, contrary to your claim about her writing:

Usually the condition is detected at birth.