Sharp: Closing a door [LWN.net]

Sharp: Closing a door

Posted Oct 9, 2015 19:08 UTC (Fri) by mrshiny (guest, #4266)
In reply to: Sharp: Closing a door by Wol
Parent article: Sharp: Closing a door

It's not even clear what it means to have a male or female brain. There are so many factors involved in the biology and socialization that you can't just divide brains up that way.

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"male" and "female" brains

Posted Oct 9, 2015 20:36 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

Yes, it's not clear but there have been interesting studies that hint at differences. There have been both live brain scans and and post-mortem dissections of brains that suggest that transsexuals brains are more similar to other brains of the gender they identify with and less similar to other brains of their biological sex.

We also know that different parts of the fetus develop at different times; genital differentiation occurs way before brain development is far along and there are hints that during fetal development, a baby may develop a female body but a more typical "male" brain and vice-versa. Again, so far we only have hints, but not exact details.

I'm pretty familiar with this topic as a modicum of googling will reveal.

-- Dianne Skoll.