Trans activist use the brain argument a lot,but what does it mean to have a female or male brain?

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[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

So it sounds like the only observable difference then is sexuality.

There has to be a few others that deal with sexually dimorphic biology, but that's such a small difference I don't know if it can ever be detected. Nothing with an effect on cognitivity. There are some behavior and ability differences but they're all caused by hormones and only appear post-puberty, so that can't be the cause.

[–]reluctant_commenter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There are some behavior and ability differences but they're all caused by hormones and only appear post-puberty, so that can't be the cause.

(Kind of a tangent) I don't know what ones you have in mind, but I've read that supposed ability differences between the sexes mostly do not replicate across countries, with the exception of spatial reasoning. (edit: I mean cognitive abilities, to be clear, not physical strength differences.)

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They're not really noticeable on the surface. But they do have different ways of arriving at the same result, and it does show when someone is expecting to do it one way but other parts of their wiring developed to do it the other.

Even spatial reasoning is just a trend, not a hard difference. That's the vast majority of sexual dimorphism. But it does add up, so there's no specific thing that's different, but the sum is significant. That's how you can almost always tell faces apart, even though there's no trait that all men have and all women don't, or vice versa. It really sucks when that doesn't work for you.