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Transgender rights have also become a mainstream political issue, and the idea that people should be referred to by the names and pronouns they find most fitting—whether or not these designations match those on their birth certificates, or align with the categories of male and female—is gaining acceptance.

Yet a biological understanding of the contrast between the natal sex and the gender identity of transgender people remains elusive. In recent years, techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI have begun to yield clues to possible biological underpinnings of the condition known as gender dysphoria.

Techniques such as functional MRI have begun to yield clues to possible biological underpinnings of gender. The results may not have much effect on how gender dysphoria is diagnosed and treated, notes Baudewijntje Kreukels , who studies gender incongruence at VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam. One prominent hypothesis on the basis of gender dysphoria is that sexual differentiation of the genitals occurs separately from sexual differentiation of the brain in utero, making it possible that the body can veer in one direction and the mind in another.

At the root of this idea is the notion that gender itself—the sense of which category one belongs in, as opposed to biological sex—is determined in the womb for humans. As recently as the s, many researchers argued that social norms in how we raised our children solely dictated the behavioral differences that developed between girls and boys. Perhaps the most famous proponent of this line of thinking was psychologist John Money, who went so far as to posit that a male baby with a congenital abnormality of the penis, or who had lost his penis in a surgical accident, could successfully be raised as a female following treatment with surgery and hormones.

Sex differences in the brain are now well documented, although the extent to which these arise from biological versus social factors is still hotly debated. The developmental mismatch idea draws support from two sets of findings. Animal studies demonstrated that the genitals and the brain acquire masculine or feminine traits at different stages of development in utero, setting up the potential for hormone fluctuations or other factors to put those organs on different tracks.

Dick Swaab of the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience is a pioneer in the neuroscience underlying gender identity. In the mids, his group examined the postmortem brains of six transgender women and reported that the size of the central subdivision of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis BSTc or BNSTc , a sexually dimorphic area in the forebrain known to be important to sexual behavior, was closer to that of cisgender women than cisgender men. In another study published in , Swaab and a coauthor examined the postmortem volume of the INAH3 subnucleus, an area of the hypothalamus previously linked to sexual orientation.

The researchers found that this region was about twice as big in cisgender men as in women, whether trans- or cisgender. Same for a gay gene or series of genes. Australians did a study that found issues with the SRY gene in male to female transsexuals. Sadly large amounts of the brain and genetic research into the causes of transsexualism have been conducted outside the U.

S because of prejudice both inside and outside the academic world. I believe the use of the word transgender relates to that prejudice. I know of no brain or chromosome research that has been conducted on those who identify as other than male or female. Here is a Popular Science article about the sry gene link to transsexualism. Add to that objections by the transgender leadership about studying transsexuals by sexual orientation. Those who know the research well know transvestites as well as other forms of pseudo at ran asexual a have been allowed to transition.

The word transgender comes from that and a hatred towards transsexuals by lesbian feminist. Other than humans, has it been observed in nature? If so, perhaps genes can be identified by comparing genomes? I hope some people are still on this old article. I am a cis man. E in bioengineering and Ph. And that this is a serious question.

If I understand correctly, this is separate from what sex and by sex I understand that means outward biology they are attracted to sexually. So my sincere question, because I want to understand but I do not currently, is how anyone can identify with a particular gender apart from with sex they are attracted to sexually. I saw the whole social club argument, but I am not sure I am buying it. I have both male and female friends, but I have more women friends and in this comparison I am not including past or present lovers.

Again please emphasize I am interested in logical and factual discussion. I am not attacking anyone, and I will not respond to any personal attacks. Without referring to your primary or secondary sexual characteristics how do you know that you are a boy?

The answer to that question is the same answer that those of us that are transgender have. In much the same way that some people are left-handed. Genes — there are XX and XY. These genes set up the potential in the womb for natal development e. The genes determine sex, but the environment in the womb nurture results in the expression of trans-gender. XX and XY are not genes, they are pairs of chromosomes. Multiple genes are found on each of the chromosomes. While there may be certain genes that determine a single trait, often there are traits that are determined by multiple genes.

As this article asserts, it may be a combination of genes on these x and y chromosomes that determine gender. Here is more information on that topic: Funny how all of his sources were debunked years ago. Johns Hopkins has in fact resumed performing transgender surgery as of this year. Paul McHugh also tried to convince the world that the pedophelia in the Catholic priesthood was actually gay sex with remorse. This article is highly subjective and makes false presumptions. What we do know is that biological gender is indeed binary as the article correctly states , and as far as we know, biology describes the totality of our gender experience.

The rest is entirely speculation, most of it politicized, based on scant, often dated or discredited studies with hypothetical conclusions that establish nothing close to a consensus. This article is written based on scientific studies. We seek to always represent the science fairly. As the author, it is YOUR responsibility to provide cites and resources to justify the position that you hold or the findings your deduce from the research. You have that backwards. In the article it pointed out that other scientific studies were debunked and discredited, but why?

You cannot prove your point without backing it up with a source, that source being one you used to disprove and prove your point. We agree that sources are important! While gender dysphoria used to be classified as a mental illness, it is now widely accepted that this is not the case. It is also widely accepted among both doctors and scientists that neither biological sex i.

I have to agree with Marshall. The Scientific Method is the process of eliminating possibilities through experiments, not designing experiments to support their hypothesis. This article has not considered many other hypothesis but cherry picked evidence to support the desired conclusion. In Neurobiology you can take any group of individuals and discover similarities in their brain composition. While the science may be sound in this article the conclusions can be misleading.

There are some studies almost all human studies for which it is not possible to design the types of empirical experiments one can do with animals. The studies presented in this article are very standard scientific studies, designed using the scientific method within ethical confines. Twin studies are the gold standard in determining genetic contribution in human studies.

If more identical twins who have identical genomes than fraternal twins have something in common, then it is very likely that there is a genetic contribution. This is because it is unlikely that two identical twins are raised in more similar environments than fraternal twins. And this is exactly what was seen with the trait of being transgender! And science is definitively about consensus! With the genetic and brain structure evidence we have now and is explained in this article , there is scientific consensus that gender identity has biological underpinnings.

However even with consensus, evidence behind that consensus still is the strength behind the scientific claim. On the note of my own personal evidence, I am not the one making a scientific claim.

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This paper is the one that makes a scientific claim and attempting to use evidence to support the claim. Incomplete evidence provides incomplete conclusions. If all of those experiments fail to disprove the hypothesis, then logically it can be concluded that the hypothesis is correct. All that this article does is show ONE experiment that supports the hypothesis and then published the conclusions. To try and catch those holes before publishing? Again great, insightful article but it is incomplete and does not answer all questions related to transgenderism.

In fact it raises more questions than it answers and that in it of itself tells me it is an incomplete study with an incomplete conclusion. This article is not a study. It is a summary of peer-reviewed, scientific-method-using literature on this topic. The author is not trying to make or test a hypothesis. She is just summarizing available studies.

When I asked you for evidence, I was responding to the part of your comment that said you agreed with Marshall. Marshall said claimed that there was evidence that explained transgenderism as a mental illness. This article talks about multiple experiments she cites at least 8 studies , btw. The point of peer review is to catch holes in a single study, not holes in an entire field of research. Gender is much too complicated to be understood in a single study. The studies here asked and answered specific questions e. And these studies, according to their peer-reviewers, were able to reliably answer these questions.

No one is trying to explain all of the reasons contributing to gender identity in a single study. Every field has more work to do to understand ourselves and our world more completely. As scientists, we are glad that there are always more questions to answer, for this is what keeps us employed! I believe the claim he was making referred to the high suicide rates that are comparable to those with Gender-dysphoria. Studies have even determined that gender re-assignment surgery does not help with the suicide rates.

The easy answer is to explain this away by saying the high suicide rate is due to high exposure to bullying. Yet even among other groups that experience intense bullying still come no where close to the same amount of suicide rates. I myself have spent two years in a situation where I was constantly rejected, spit on, robbed and even threatened at gun point. I believe that is what Marshall is referring to in the above comment and is a major flaw in the above article. Also it would be important to take into account individuals who have gone through what some would call a transgender lifestyle and lived to regret it.

Understanding what helped them to not commit suicide and to come at peace with themselves. Many children who believe they are a different sex tend to grow out of it as their brain and body develops. So why should we encourage a behavior that is potentially self destructive? You would encourage a bulimic individual to continue throwing up would you? I would hope you would try and get them the best help possible.

In fact similar neuroscience studies have found brain developmental causes for depression. Does that mean we encourage individuals with depression because it is natural? No we help them cope with it in spite of how their body naturally developed. I see no difference in with transgenderism especially because there is no indication in studies that transgender individuals would stop killing themselves if the world just stopped bullying them. White men, as a group, also have higher suicide rates than the general population.

Does that mean that identifying as a white man is a sign of mental illness? Third, can you cite the studies that show transgender people have higher suicide rates that is not due to bullying? And fourth, from the APA: Also I would look at: Figures lie and liars figure. Hiding behind the studies you choose to cherry pick while ignoring many others that YOU KNOW exist and that say something completely different with real consensus than your make believe consensus presented in this hack job article is no better than propaganda.

There are many elements of truth presented, but when you can not even address a simple question on a transgender gene without mocking people and talking in circles when the answer is nothing but CONSENSUS? Please, save us your self serving condescension. You lose all credibility at that point. If you have studies to disprove this i. We have no intention of cherry-picking. Please let us know what other information you think should be included here so as not to give that impression.

The Guardian article mentions that many therapists interviewed believe that the vast majority of their clients who have undergone sexual reassignment surgery are happy with the change. The consensus from the article from both sides of the argument is actually that more research needs to be done, because so many follow-up studies have sampled the population poorly. Such a dramatic change inevitably produces psychological trauma.

If you have a good health care provider, they will likely offer counseling after a skin transplant following severe burns that might alter your physical appearance for instance. Furthermore, this cohort study was comparing individuals who had undergone sexual reassignment to the general population.

Perhaps a better comparison would be to transgender individuals who had not undergone reassingnment to see if suicide rates had gone down — which would ACTUALLY comment on the effectiveness of sex reassignment. Finally, a much more recent study has actually addressed some of your concerns. It shows that while suicide attempt rates are indeed higher among transgender individuals, these rates drop dramatically if psychological and social factors bullying, marginalization, etc.

If the individuals themselves did not have negative views surrounding transgenderism, rates dropped. This was for attempted suicide not actual. I am generally suspicious of the regret rate as so many are lost to follow up. Having had two friends transition fully and partially and regret it i am aware neither cases were captured as regret. In the full case the mtf continued to live as a woman as having divested herself of her genitalia she thought this the better option along with the ability to use the protected trans characteristic in law to her advantage in applying for jobs and housing etc.

However she was fully aware that the procedure was a mistake and she realised she was a cross dresser who had a mental breakdown and became convinced that she was trans and transition the answer to her problems. The case of my friend who partially transitioned was similar. He came to realise he was a cross dresser whose therapist had persuaded him was a sign he was actually trans gender.

He know considers that this was delusional thinking encouraged by a mental health professional when he was suffering depression. As the other two trans people i know who are happy with their transitional so have serious mental health issues i am inclined to think from this case study of 4 that whilst for some genetics may be at play that there is a large scope for other aetiologies. In fact it seems negligent to ignore this as allowing vulnerable people to modify their bodies so drastically in ways they may later regret even if not officially is unethical. The biological basis this article promotes acts to encourage a lack of gatekeeping for treatment which i see as very important to ensure only those who would really benefit are permitted to be treated.

That said, you really should read up on intersex and how that works — on a genetic level. Gender, on the other hand, is socio-cultural. Bibliographies on both these works are a good resource for bringing yourself up to speed in the gender studies field. Transgender is not viewed as a pathology. Moods do not necessarily correlate to some sort of neuro-pathological state e. Gender presentation by and large is a socio-cultural function.

There are two windows in natal development for sex differentiation: The DSM was changed not by scientific pressure but by political pressure. This is no different than the EPA changing its criteria based on Exxon lobbying. I would dearly love you to cite the evidence that gender dysphoria responds to psychopharmacological treatment or talking therapies as the disorders you mentioned do.

Trans people have a perfectly good idea as to what their bodies look like. There is no fussing over any minor or imagined defect. Just one more bit of data suggesting that gender dysphoria is not in the same realm as BDD and other disorders if they were, it would stand to reason that the same type of treatment would effect similar results. Transgenderism is not at all like anorexia or other body dysmorphic illnesses because transgender patients were treated in the same exact way medically and psychologically as people with BIID, anorexia, etc and did not respond to the therapies or medication in anyway.

However, people with anorexia, BIID, etc did and do respond to those therapies and medications. You should look into the history of how transgender people were treated by the medical community because they treated exactly like people suffering from body dysmorphic illnesses. However, transgenderism did and does respond very well to the way that it is treated today, which is first to help the person come to terms with their transgender status, and then from there to help the person decide what the next course of action should be from transitioning socially, medically, or do nothing.

As for the comorbidity rate much of that is due to the very negative way in which transgender people are treated, and perceived by society. As the current treatment and standards of care for. However, after talking with a gender therapist, socially transitioning, and especially after being on cross sex hormone replacement therapy for a few months my gender dysphoria completely went away. Again if transgenderism were cognitive disorder like BDD, anorexia, BIID, etc then is should have responded to the treatments used to help people with those disorders, and they had no effect at all.

And certain not for lack of. The reason I believe for this is simple and that is that transgenderism in and of itself is not a mental disorder or illness. Down below is an excerpt from a paper that Dr. Milton Diamond wrote in as well as a link to the entire paper. Milton Diamond is please google him as he has contributed probably more than anyone else to our understanding of gender, transgenderism, and interseuxality. He has been studying and publishing papers on every gender related since , and is also one of the people who did a study with fraternal and identical twins looking to see if there is a genetic component to transgenderism.

He located a set of identical twins who were adopted away at birth, and who were raised in different countries, spoke different languages, and both transitioned at around the same time, and both talked about experiencing their transgenderism similarly. In fact, down below is a link to a youtube video with him discussing the results. I believe that transsexuals are intersexed in their brains as others are or might be more obviously so in their gonads, genitals, hormonal character, receptors, enzymatic or chromosomal constitution.

And it is this brain intersexuality that biases the person to assert his or her gender identity. As a retired RN, having researched this thoroughly, I stand with you Kristin. They do basically consider it normal to have gender fluidity. As mentioned, at least 6 genes have been identified for gender ID. As mentioned, indigenous peoples identified and were comfortable with this, until the arrival of missionaries, who punished if not complied with male or female period. Due to their choice of beliefs. Society is changing thank goodness, one is either for humane treatment of humans, or not.

I remember I went through a Tomboy stage for a while and wanted everyone to call me Bobby but I grew out of it. HB2 in North Carolina was passed not long after I came out last year, and I was told by a man in a Facebook thread, as a broad, sweeping declaration, that he was coming for us all with a can of gasoline. Teh Children never seem to come under consideration when we are discussing the suicide rates of queer youth, or the fact that some queer people, such as myself, have actual real live children of our own.

Martin Luther King Jr, and ignore all the rest. It is so backward, I might laugh, but it is a serious matter when society thinks as you do. Some academics highlight a pattern where those who benefit from a type of privilege are unwilling to acknowledge it. American sociologist Michael S. These special rights protect the marginalized from the many micro and macro aggressions taken on them, in daily life. The reproductive organs form during the first weeks of pregnancy.

As with any early pregnancy time, all organs are fragile to outside events, genetics triggered, receptors working or not, hormones. My mother was exposed to DDT, and it did cause a defect for me. Legislation is necessary for all marginalized, due to the current wave of outright acted upon hatred toward those not privileged to be born white. About something that does not impact others lives with harm. The marginalized have fear every day.

In the USA, our Constitution demands equality for all. Wonder why this is not true? You are being dramatic about not being able to criticize an article. Free speech is in our Constitution also. IF you are still reading, I would suggest using the Google to research privilege, the lives daily of marginalized persons non-white, non-binary , medical research- use. I do wish you well on a journey of eye opening, and hopefully more empathy and compassion for all the humans who live on this earth. Thanks, hope you can have success; usually humility is earned via suffering.

I will pray you learn humility. It is proven science that the X and Y chromosomes are not the determinant of sex assignment. To believe they are is to make yourself into a relic of the past. This is very interesting to read as a trans girl myself.

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Twin studies are a common way to determine how much a trait is caused by your genetics or the environment. Identical twins have the same genes, so if gender identity were entirely due to genetics, you would expect that two identical twins would always have the same gender identity.

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However, identical twins often though perhaps less so in your case have very similar environments, too siblings are often exposed to the same water growing up , so these studies use fraternal twins who have different genetics, but similar environments as a control. In the case of gender identity, more identical twins share gender identity than fraternal twins, meaning that there are some genetic causes. So since you and your brother are identical twins, it suggests that differences in your environments played a role in the differences in your gender identity.

I hope that answers your question! Marshall, you represent the multitude of ignorant people that harbor anger toward anyone that is different from them. You discount science because you are threatened by a group of persons that are not doing anything personally to you. Human beings are sexually dimorphic, end of discussion. The author fails epicly to disprove this, instead touts out the vague assertion that science tells us that gender, mind you gender is a social not biological construct, is not binary. This assertion takes the discussion from a hard science such as biology or chemistry to the soft science of sociology, in other words an educated guess.

So effectively the author is arguing, poorly, that there might be some some scientific evidence to support a basis for this deviant behavior. Keep in mind I am using the sociological definintion of deviant, which is defined and any behavior that is contrary to the dominant norms of a society. That pretty much ends the discussion right there.

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Saying something has strong support in the social sciences is like finding someone in a mental institution that claims God told me to do it. Saying something is peer reviewed in a hard science carries far more weight than one from a soft science. I do not see an overwhelming amount of evidence here to support most of the assertions made in this paper, plain and simple. Whining about the limited amount of funding available for research puts the final two nails in the coffin, first it is not an accepted cultural norm worthy of further study, second as noted perhaps spend less time on pseudo science and more effort to design and test a valid hypothesis as it might yeild more funding.

Please come on back to earth. Most people still do not understand that gender and biological sex, are not the same things. Most people speak of gender when what they technically mean is biological sex. I understand exactly why trans people such as yourself would like for the world to focus on gender rather than biological sex.

Many trans women are beaten and or killed each year because they made the foolish assumption that the straight guy they were out on a date with, cared more about gender than biological sex. Gender is of the mind. A sense of self. It is who you are. Biological sex is what you are male or female.

Again, the thing that matters the most, IS biological sex. Gender does not determine who can and can not give birth. Gender is not what we as human beings are sexually attracted to. You want the world to care more about gender because your biological sex is not what you want it to be. Sorry but a trans woman is not the same as a biological woman. That is why one is called trans and the other is not. That may be a very hurtful fact within your mind and heart but is the truth. Again, just because you claim something, does not make it factual.

Reality does not exist according to your desires. If it did, then you would not be trans, you would be a biological woman. Tell me, what is is exactly, that makes a person gay? Notice the word sexual, not gender?! Most people are attracted to people of the opposite biological sex as them. That is how nature designed us for the very specific purpose of reproduction in order to keep the human race thriving.

Tinder is a very popular dating app. They had to add a transgender option because users kept getting angry that they were not informed that some of their matches were trans. After finding out, users would flag the trans users: Many trans women are attacked and or killed each year, after a straight male they date, finds out that they are trans. Harming a trans person or any person is always wrong but the reason that leads them to such anger is yet another indication as to how strongly many people feel about gender vs biological sex.

Being a biological woman is about far more than what they look like. That means that MOST trans women have a penis. Most trans women do not pass very well. Most trans people do not begin HRT before puberty though HRT would be most effective if it began before puberty begins its natural course on the body.

As a trans woman, you can not give birth. That is yet another important factor to not all but most men. Again, having a penis is a deal breaker to most straight men. I know many males, all of whom feel the same as I do. The other one looked trans, a mile away. When the time is right, I will get married and have children with a biological woman. Again, biological sex is what you are as in your physical body. Gender is who you are as in your sense of self within your mind.

Do you really not understand the difference? A biological male can have a great personality. He can be within his mind, everything that I like. But I would never even consider wanting to date him. You can focus on gender all you want, but you can NOT force anyone else to do the same. That will never happen. See yourself as whatever you want. That is your business and your right. What is not your right is to try and tell other people what should be most important to them and how they should feel about you and your transgender reality.

Why are there dating sites where men seek out trans women to date? The visual representation of gender is what the man cis wants. If she has fully transitioned, he may never know the difference. That report is very controversial and not peer reviewed: To make such a conclusion from the few words you have offered is an intended deception which cast a doubt on the veracity of everything you say.

The sentence you quote links to one of the studies which is actually a meta-study that contains a nice list of all the studies it examined. We could probably write a whole article just about twin studies, but here we were trying to cover more ground. Twin studies are actually an extremely common way to determine the relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors. Harvard has jumped on the lunacy bandwagon now? This is just fake science and biased garbage.

What happened to reason?? Everyone rejects facts now. You have all lost your minds. It is a mental disorder, end of. Harvard has jumped on its usual scientific facts now. This is just well researched science and blessed oops misread lol truth. Only fundamentalists reject facts now. I am glad majority of all humans do not reject hard scientific work now. It is biological and genetic, end of. The idea that gender is fluid because Judith Butler and articles like this say so, is ridiculous.

I read lots of different articles. A most informative piece. I found it very helpful. I found my dysphoria completely vanished once my body matched that of my mind. My arms, my legs, my body, my mind… I have become My self.

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Science — this science has helped me to make sense of why I am. I liked the article, and chased up a couple of references, but was disappointed by what I found. In the paragraph on estrogen receptor sensitivity, you cite two articles. Do you have any more solid data on this? Thanks so much — you actually caught a mistake! We meant to cite another article by Fernandez et al. These two papers actually came out the same year and covered a similar topic, hence the error, which has now been corrected.

So, I want to make sure I address your comments. Still, studying ERbeta in mice, we do know that polymorphisms can have drastic effects on nervous system develop. With MtF, the polymorphism is different, and thus has different repercussions. Another interesting piece of evidence with FtM — http: CYP17 is involved in hormone metabolism, and thus may be affecting estrogen production. This study supports the idea that FtM may not have sufficient estrogen production and thus are not sufficiently feminized.

I also want to address the other Fernandez et al. However, the androgen receptor paper cited above was fully vetted by us and met our standards. Briefly comparing what is available between the papers, the Hare et al. There is, however, medical and scientific consensus that transgender identity is NOT a mental illness: Part of my difficulty with this field is understanding what is meant by having a sense of gender. I could compare them to stereotypes, but perhaps people are talking of a different, extra thing: Is that a thing?

I want to know—what does it feel like to be male or female? While transgender people seem very sure of being of a gender other than their biological sex, I, as someone who does not identify as transgender, would not know what makes me a woman other than my body, the only body I have ever had form follows function? I was just me. Later on, of course, as an adult woman I felt the impact of that social construct on me, whether I liked it or not. Culturally, I am a woman because I am seen as a woman. But I always understood it as a construct, something given to me already made rather than a way of being.

What I am wondering is what is like to feel like a woman or a man when these are not fixed qualities anyone can refer to. We are all different. But do we need a name for everything?

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Even for things we cannot describe? We are all fluid, one way or another. We should respect all human beings. It feels like you fit your body. It feels like you know what bathroom to go into. It feels like you know what clothes look good on you. Your mind, psyche, body, all match. The only one that made sense to me.



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I was one of them the boys , but looking from the outside. I was just me, wanting to feel complete and whole like a cisgendered person does. You look in the mirror, you see a woman. Society sees a woman. You FEEL like a woman. Society gives people roadmaps or blueprints to follow if we fit the gender normative life. Those are the standard roles, and are constructed All boys like blue, all girls like pink.

We all see it in our specific society, and other countries have their own versions. She worries about gender norms, she hopes someone will love her and find her attractive, she wants to dance and cry and who gives a damn what colors she likes?