Transgendered children

[SteelCurtain]

Opinions are like assholes, Chad.

Meantime, I'll bring some facts to the table.

There are major differences between the brains of males and females. And not just size. The neural pathways are different, and there are also little pockets of white matter that are different. Guess what? We can look at brains now. While they're in your head!
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20...T2HvSG4TIU

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).

And it doesn't just stop there. The neural pathways are markedly different as well, with female to male transgendered people having neural pathways that more closely resemble males, and vice versa.
http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content...hu194.full

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Figure 1.
Average structural connectivity for female controls, female-to-male transsexuals, male controls, and male-to-female transsexuals for full (i.e., unthresholded connectivity matrices). Increased LCW was found in male-to-female transsexualsa,b,c between right subcortical (subc.)/limbic and left subcortical/limbic lobes (red, top). Decreased LCW was found in female-to-male transsexualsa,c,d between right subcortical/limbic and right temporal (temp.) lobes. Line thickness indicates connectivity weighting, whereas only connections with weights of >0.001 are shown (arbitrary choice to remove spurious connections as probabilistic tractography represents the robustness of the modeled tracts against noise). Nodes represent region of interest centers for frontal (green), temporal (blue), parietal (cyan), occipital (magenta), and limbic/subcortical brain regions (yellow). Characters indicate significant differences as compared with female controls (a), female-to-male transsexuals (b), male controls ©, or male-to-female transsexuals (d), see Table 1 for details. Axial images are in radiological view (i.e., left image side is right hemisphere).

Figure 2.
Average structural connectivity for female controls (FC, blue), female-to-male transsexuals (FtM, red), male controls (MC, green), and male-to-female transsexuals (MtF, black) for sparse connectivity matrices thresholded between 10 and 50% network density. Small-worldness was not significantly different between groups (A). In contrast, HCR of right subcortical/limbic connections separated patients from controls (B). The decreased HCR in transsexuals was caused by increased LCW in MtF © and decreased LCW in FtM (D). Values show mean ± standard error. See Table 1 for detailed statistics.

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But none of that matters, does it, Chad? Because your gut tells you *yuck* and that's all you need to know.