Are the TQs right or wrong in saying that the brains of gay people are structured like the brains of their opposite sex by which they mean gay men are psychologically women and gay women are psychologically men?

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[–]Seahorse 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks for this.

This study often cited by TRAs but they always cherry pick which aspects to talk about.

I compare it to antivaxxers and the Wakefield study.

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No problem. And yeah they love to use studies like this in their favor not realizing it actually disproves their argument. Usually what's at play when a study claims to find evidence of brain sex is that the sample size is too small, and when compared to another study with a much larger sample size (over 1000), those differences start to fade. In cases where a large sample size does seem to prove brain sex, TRAs arguing in favor of it always gloss over the fact that TRENDS are found, not something they can definitely look at and say a brain is male or female. Unlike genitals and chromosomes, there is no one structure or even a group of structures in the brain that a scientist can see on a scan and classify its sex. But that's typical TRA behavior really. They see a trend and try to box everyone inside the boundaries. Anyone who doesn't fit is immediately transed.