It’s good to hear that there’s some more scientific studies showing that gender and sex are distinct facets of our biology. Sadly, I’m skeptical it will do much to sway the bigots, but any good news is positive news!
I always get a little antsy around this kind of stuff because eventually, it’s going to get to a point where it either gets treated as a diagnostic tool or insurance requirement for trans people accessing healthcare.
As long as it isn’t a requirement for legal or medical procedures and is only used as a diagnostic tool to better understand oneself, it shouldn’t be too problematic, I think. If it’s used to diagnose someone without their consent is a different story, and I would hate to see medical science advancements used to perpetuate abuse rather than improve our lives.
Or insurance requirement for trans people accessing healthcare.
I’m hoping private healthcare and health insurance will be a thing of the past by the time your concerns become a reality, but that’s an extremely valid concern nonetheless.
All my homies hate trans-medicalism, this will inevitably lead to a “cure” or something bullshit like that, we don’t need medical validation in the first place
Maybe we should try to “cure” all of it. If there was a pill that would “cure” my cisgenderness and make me trans, maybe it would be worth a try. Maybe I’d be happier as a woman even if I didn’t identify as one before.
Sexual preference too. Maybe I’d be happier being gay. If I could “cure” my heterosexuality, maybe my life would be more fulfilling.
It would be worth a try anyway.
Bring on the pills! Better living through chemistry!
(Obviously I’m being flippant. Any sort of “cure” would be designed to only go one way and we all know which way.)
We’ve known for a while that the brains of trans women more closely resemble those of cis women than cis men, and vice versa. Bigots don’t give a shit about the science, they just use their 4th grade understanding of it to attack “others”.
They give a shit about the “science” they think supports their point. Even if it’s something like phrenology.
Sex is a biological variable, shaped by our body’s hormones, anatomy, and genetics, whereas gender is a cultural construct, shaped by both our sense of self and interactions with others.
Isn’t the study implying that gender isn’t purely a cultural construct if there’s a neurological component to it?
Maybe there are actually three potentially independent elements (biological, neurological, and cultural).
Everything has a neurological component to it, because you’re a brain thinking about it, right? At least that’s what I’m getting from that.
Yeah, but we can distinguish between neurological components that are conditioned on biology outside the brain like chromosomes and hormones (what the article calls “sex”), components that are conditioned on learning (“cultural constructs”), and components that are conditioned on neither (what the article, apart from the quoted sentence, calls “gender”).
Don’t forget fashion. I look great in heels.
I’m not sure what you mean by separating the biological and the neurological. Isn’t neurology a component of biology?
By “biological” I mean the neurological component that correlates with biological sex, and by “neurological” I mean the component that’s purely neurological and doesn’t correlate with anything outside the brain.
Oh good, you can do a scan of my brain to tell me I’m actually a bi woman in a man’s body, right? Hahaha.
Ha
Well, evidently…
This is a neat study. It looks like they are able to predict one’s sex more than one’s gender and they have a decent sample size (4757).
Does anyone have any insight on reading the data from the report directly? https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn4202
