RE: Choosing who you are
June 22, 2019 at 5:44 am
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2019 at 5:46 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(June 22, 2019 at 4:15 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: "Nature VS Nurture" demands being put here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_ide..._formation
Quote:Social factors which may influence gender identity include ideas regarding gender roles conveyed by family, authority figures, mass media, and other influential people in a child's life.[21]
Stop cherry picking.
From the same link that you provided:
Quote:A well-known example in the nature-versus-nurture debate is the case of David Reimer, otherwise known as "John/Joan". As a baby, Reimer went through a faulty circumcision, losing his male genitalia. Psychologist John Money convinced Reimer's parents to raise him as a girl. Reimer grew up as a girl, dressing in girl clothes and surrounded by girl toys, but did not feel like a girl. After he tried to commit suicide at age 13, he was told that he had been born with male genitalia, which he underwent surgery to reconstruct.[28] This response went against Money's hypothesis that biology had nothing to do with gender identity or human sexual orientation.[29]
Quote:Several studies have shown that sexually dimorphic brain structures in transsexuals are shifted away from what is associated with their birth sex and towards what is associated with their preferred sex.[48][49] In particular, the bed nucleus of a stria terminalis or BSTc (a constituent of the basal ganglia of the brain which is affected by prenatal androgens) of trans women is similar to cisgender women's and unlike men's.[50][51] Similar brain structure differences have been noted between gay and heterosexual men, and between lesbian and heterosexual women.[52][53] Another study suggests that transsexuality may have a genetic component.[54]
Research suggests that the same hormones that promote the differentiation of sex organs in utero also elicit puberty and influence the development of gender identity. Different amounts of these male or female sex hormones within a person can result in behavior and external genitalia that do not match up with the norm of their sex assigned at birth, and in a person acting and looking like their identified gender.[55]
