Edit: I am adding some additional context to my original post (thanks u/fr_bandersnatch).
This article was written by James Cantor, a researcher who recently resigned from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) because they were silencing any criticisms of transgender views.
Link about James Cantor's position and issues with that group:
http://www.sexologytoday.org/2020/08/open-letter-of-resignation-from-society.html
I can't prove it, but given his views on the SSSS-- I kind of wonder if he was pressured by the journal to include this line about transgenderism being "innate and immutable". It doesn't even make sense within the context of the article he wrote. And I could imagine a lot of people being pissed off at him for daring to suggest that Blanchard might have been right.
Scary how much silencing is going on.
[original post]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3180619/#__ffn_sectitle
Notice: this article was not peer-reviewed, it was published in a research journal as a "Letter to the Editor". So, it is not actual research, it's just one dude's opinion, but it LOOKS legitimate because it was published in an academic journal. You can bet anything that the trans crowd would probably point to this and be like, "See, SCIENCE says we are real!" But this article is not even peer-reviewed and this claim is not even backed up by data(!!!), so let's set the record straight.
At the end of the article, the author makes the claim:
the data nonetheless confirm that heterosexual transsexuals have a brain structure distinct from that of typical (nontranssexual) persons. Their gender identity is not a transient or ephemeral characteristic, but a likely innate and immutable characteristic, emerging from their particular brain structure.
This is ridiculous because
That is a HUGE conclusion to jump to, from "data say there is evidence of brain differences among heterosexual MTF" to "gender identity is an innate and immutable characteristic!"
The data do not actually say that. In fact, the data say:
Of the eight brain regions that distinguished male from female brains, the heterosexual transsexual sample differed from the male controls on none
And the authors of THAT study about heterosexual MTFs say:
“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”
This article is a pretty short read, I would recommend it. The two studies reviewed have some interesting implications for Ray Blanchard's theory-- actually backing it up. BUT that concluding paragraph is bullshit.
(Also, shoutout to the authors of that study calling trans ideology what it is-- dogma.)
TLDR: Two studies suggest that there are no patterns of brain differences between hetersexual MTFs and males, but there are for homosexual MTFs (patterns disappear once you control for homosexuality). Article writer decides that this means that transgenderism is "innate and immutable".
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