Posted: Jun 03, 2018 8:20 pm
aban57 wrote:NNY wrote:aban57 wrote:http://www.iflscience.com/brain/born-this-way-transgender-brains-show-similarity-to-those-of-their-desired-gender-from-a-young-age/
First, the way transgender are treated has nothing to do with how GD appears. It's different in every country, and sometimes has pretty much nothing to do with what science knows on the subject.
Also, as it's said in my quote, the "hard wire" thing is the leading theory (they probably should have said hypothesis), because it's the only one that currently explains all we know. Nobody said it was proven.
I agree that how trans is treated and how GD appears are not related, but my response is to Bakker's statement.We will then be better equipped to support these young people, instead of just sending them to a psychiatrist and hoping that their distress will disappear spontaneously
Bakker also stated the following.Although more research is needed, we now have evidence that sexual differentiation of the brain differs in young people with GD," lead author Dr Julie Bakker commented about her team’s findings, set to be presented today at the European Society of Endocrinology annual meeting in Barcelona.
Bakker's "evidence" will be true until people who don't have GD have brain scans that correlated to somebody that does have GD.