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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is like saying if someone is depressed and suicidal that means they really truly were never meant to be born. Makes no sense.

I've also read that story on the 6 transwomen and first of all, any conclusions drawn from observing 6 individuals is not a scientific study. That's an anecdote. Second, you're absolutely right that any study done on an adult trans person taking HRT are going to be skewed by the effects of hormones and neural plasticity due to a person's environment.

The article even says that the results are 'mixed' when it comes to any conclusions regarding trans brains.

“What we found is that, in several regions, cis women, male-to-female trans, and female-to-male trans have thicker cortex than cis males, but not in the same regions.”

This basically says absolutely nothing about trans people having truly opposite sexed brains. If they did, they'd see the same (or similar) patterns in the same (or similar) regions of the brain between women and transwomen, likewise with men and transmen. Also I'd be willing to bet if they took a decent number of 'cis' people and looked at their brains they'd find the same types of discrepancies. Because brains aren't 100% male or 100% female.

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

Yeah, and if there really were clear-cut, consistent differences in male and female brains across the board (seen in all ages, races, ethnicities, countries, localities, cultures and so on) wouldn't there already be tons and tons of studies showing and replicating this? After all, autopsies and brain dissections aren't exactly new. And men have been alleging and trying to make the case that male brains are inherently different to and superior to female ones for millennia.