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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

hahahah yes!!

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    [–]jet199[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    They are getting it peer reviewed by sending it out to overly online crazies on social media.

    Because those are their peers.

    [–]Musky 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

    I am skeptical of this test, it implies transgenderism is anything but a mental illness/ fetish. Even if it were a real thing, how could they prove the test worked definitively? All the trannies who fail the test will claim the test is simply wrong.

    [–]jet199[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

    I think it's likely that this is just a test for either being gay or being cluster B.

    Both have biological markers, even if just due to brain plasticity reflecting behaviour.

    [–]Musky 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    You speak of Cluster B personalities a bit. I have to admit I don't know anything about it.

    bloated self-image, manipulative and impulsive behavior, pervasive pattern of attention-seeking behavior, excessive emotions, egocentrism, pervasive pattern of superior grandiosity, need for admiration

    Huh. Good thing that sounds nothing like me. 😅

    Both have biological markers

    I just glanced quickly at it, but that's "determined" via fMRI, right? Those scans literally picked up brain activity in a dead salmon. https://improbable.com/2020/06/05/fmri-brain-research-the-dead-salmon-has-lots-of-company/

    [–]jet199[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    [–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I have noticed some people with similar health issues have similar personality traits, thought that was interesting, genetics affect behavior more than I think people are comfortable with admitting.

    I'm still not sold that they have it all figured it out, but like I said, I don't know much about this.

    [–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Be funny if it's a rebranded autism screener

    [–]jacques1102 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I'm skeptical because from every study or argument from TRAs that i've seen has to due with the brains not matching.The main problem is that the mind and by extension consciousness is, in my view, an embodied phenomenon that does not exist outside our bodies. In that sense, there is no way someone could have the wrong body. Or that there could be a "male brain" in a female body or vice versa. A brain in a female body is a female brain. A brain in a male body is a male brain. To me any talk of a female brain in a male body or vice versa is just some sort of coping mechanism by people who are intensely unhappy with themselves.

    Brain studies on male vs female brains overwhelmingly show there are very few differences between them other than male brains are slightly larger. Any studies that show different are likely to be based on cherrypicke data like many (if not most) studies based on fMRI. In my view any study that relies solely on fMRI is suspect because many of these studies are not falsifiable or reproducible.

    TBH i find science is this area to be kind sus in general because TRAs have been trying for literally decades to show that female brains and male brains are different in order to prove that it's possible for someone to be born into the wrong body. he brain is highly plastic and I doubt that there is anything that people could find that explains either transness or heck even homosexuality with any degree of rigor. If fMRI science was actually valid medical doctors would be using it as a diagnostic tool in psychiatry to see whether or not someone is actually trans in the brain or not,but they don't.

    [–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    It can't be proved, and it's deeeeeply transphobic to say it's caused by biology.

    [–]brimshae 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Having a chemical imbalance is also a biological condition.

    [–]UncleWillard56 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    "People should be able to be trans just because they want to be, regardless of whether they 'biologically' are."

    Wow! That is a dumb trans person. Kinda defeats the whole argument that it is treatment for a condition. So you're no better than some woman who gets a boob job? Keep that up and no one will respect your pronouns.