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

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[–]proc0 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think it's possible but that doesn't automatically mean it justifies the movement and all it's demands on society. The fact is no one understands the brain at the "software" level, specifically things like consciousness and how thoughts arise in the brain. Therefore no one understands the root cause of any mental illness, including dysmorphia. Simply observing symptoms indirectly is not enough to understand the mechanisms of how it works.

Once we do find out, the cure could be something completely different than what is currently being done. Imagine some neural brain therapy that targets a specific area of the brain that somehow got "tangled", and this reverses any kind of body dysmorphia in the baby. If some cure like that is discovered, it wouldn't make sense to let people suffer by letting them feel like they were born in the wrong body. It's literally like anorexia or bulimia. It doesn't make sense to have those be identities that people feel proud of. I think it's cruel, and in a few years we'll look back at this time like we look back at lobotomies and other atrocities of the medical industry.

[–]Haylstorm 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I mean the feelings come across as a brain mapping issue, where it's mapped itself wrong hence why it's throwing up the you have X symbols. If anything it seems similar to Body Identity Integrity disorder and some of the research there could pay off for trans people too. Interesting findings with the grey matter.

However a small sample of people with body integrity dysphoria connected to their left leg have had MRI scans that showed less gray matter in the right side of their superior parietal lobule. The amount of gray matter missing was correlated to the strength of the patients' desire to remove their leg

Theoretically a similar thing could exist for trans people. I think when we can locate the cause we'll be able to work on a solution. Wouldn't be surprised if it involves electricity, sorta like how depressed people describe electroshock therapy as like a reset for their brain.