A small study of brain scans of FtM Transgender people

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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Love that the abstract for the study makes the claim that TIFs experience phantom penis syndrome. Fuck right off.

Yeah the only valid related concept is neuroplasticity. Basically the more you think about something, the more your brain rewires itself to be better at thinking about the specific thing. So if people spend all day obsessing about sexed body parts then yes those areas of the brain become more prominent.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

And as they can have no possible concept of what a penis feels like, any reprogramming they do will look nothing like the analogous region in an actual penis-haver.

At some point someone will have to step in an Ockham the shit out of all this research and tell them that fetish/hyper feminine-homosexual/mental illness/erotic target error explains MTF and social contagion/Body dysmorphia/mental illness explains FTM. We can then have a rational discussion on what to do about it all.

The problem is that we don’t allow research that hurts peoples’ feelings, because of emboldening the alt-right or something.

[–]jet199 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think it's pretty common for women to imagine having a penis or dream of being a man.

However, as one father said to me once, these girls never imagine a scrotum swinging between their legs.