RE: Supernatural Evidence?
November 2, 2016 at 6:51 pm
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2016 at 6:52 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
(November 2, 2016 at 5:59 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(November 2, 2016 at 5:30 am)Mathilda Wrote: Science shows that transsexual brains are more similar to the gender that they claim to be and that they are not deluded in the same way.*emphasis mine*
wrong...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...der-brain/
Quote:“Trans people have brains that are different from males and females, a unique kind of brain,” Guillamon says. “It is simplistic to say that a female-to-male transgender person is a female trapped in a male body. It's not because they have a male brain but a transsexual brain.” Of course, behavior and experience shape brain anatomy, so it is impossible to say if these subtle differences are inborn.
If you paid attention to the video, you'd see that the woman's brain was indeed different.
And you might want to look at the body of evidence rather than pick out a single study that suits what you want to say.
http://www.journalofpsychiatricresearch....0158-5/ppt
Quote:Our results show that the white matter microstructure pattern in untreated FtM transsexuals is closer to the pattern of subjects who share their gender identity (males) than those who share their biological sex (females). Our results provide evidence for an inherent difference in the brain structure of FtM transsexuals.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2...X3_mJTNEWN
Quote:They found significant differences between male and female brains in four regions of white matter – and the female-to-male transsexual people had white matter in these regions that resembled a male brain (Journal of Psychiatric Research, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2010.05.006). “It’s the first time it has been shown that the brains of female-to-male transsexual people are masculinised,” Guillamon says.
In a separate study, the team used the same technique to compare white matter in 18 male-to-female transsexual people with that in 19 males and 19 females. Surprisingly, in each transsexual person’s brain the structure of the white matter in the four regions was halfway between that of the males and females (Journal of Psychiatric Research, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2010.11.007). “Their brains are not completely masculinised and not completely feminised, but they still feel female,” says Guillamon.
The problem is that you can't just classify the brain and being either male or female. If you did that then you'd run into trouble classifying gay people who can have a gender identity of their biological sex but can have a sexuality more like those of the opposite sex. But as usual, the religious minded such as yourself have trouble with the concept of anything that isn't binary.
Neuroscience Proves What We’ve Known All Along: Gender Exists on a Spectrum
(November 2, 2016 at 5:59 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Another nail in your coffin would be those that are gender fluid, does their brain just morph back and forth between genders?
http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Gender_Fluid
Quote:Gender fluid is a gender identity which refers to a gender which varies over time. A gender fluid person may at any time identify as male, female, neutrois, or any other non-binary identity, or some combination of identities. Their gender can also vary at random or vary in response to different circumstances. Gender fluid people may also identify as multigender, non-binary and/or transgender.
Gender fluid people who feel that the strength of their gender(s) change(s) over time, or that they are sometimes agender, may identify as gender flux.
What relevance does that have to anything?
(November 2, 2016 at 5:59 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: But hey, it's nice to know you're also intolerant to the trans-specied community...
Now you're just being stupid.