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[–]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.