[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Withano

Well, did you read the link you sent me. It defines the idea of male and female features of the brain, but how there arent two definitive brains, everyones brain is on a binary scale from extremely masculine to extremely feminine with everybody in between the two points.

If a person was born with a penis had more feminine features to their brain, you can see why they would sooner identify as a woman?

How thats not stereotypes like you assumed, their brain is literally structured in a feminine way.

That is what trans is? Brain differences, not stereotypes?

No I can't see that at all because if that were the case I'd be identifying as a man myself but again I don't define my gender by stereotypes, I define it by biology and life experiences because of that biology.

[Withano]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

No I can't see that at all because if that were the case I'd be identifying as a man myself but again I don't define my gender by stereotypes, I define it by biology and life experiences because of that biology.

I dont understand why you keep bringing up stereotypes though. I've never brought that up, your link never brought that up - as far as I can tell, thats just your misconception of what gender is.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Withano

I dont understand why you keep bringing up stereotypes though. I've never brought that up, your link never brought that up - as far as I can tell, thats just your misconception of what gender is.

I posted the definition of gender a few posts up and it pretty much says a bunch of stereotypes, doesn't mention the word brain once but OK I'm the one who doesn't understand gender

[Withano]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I posted the definition of gender a few posts up and it pretty much says a bunch of stereotypes, doesn't mention the word brain once but OK I'm the one who doesn't understand gender

Doesnt really say that though? Its an incredibly simplistic 10-word definition which you interpreted in an odd way.

Theres nothing I disagree with in the definition. There are social and cultural differences between gender, gender is encouraged from an early age. You're just ignoring why this has happened.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Withano

Doesnt really say that though? Its an incredibly simplistic 10-word definition which you interpreted in an odd way.

You know it's possible to have this discussion without having little digs at me Withano. I don't think it's "odd" to interpret the Bits I've bolded to mean stereotypes

the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones):

"traditional concepts of gender"


•the members of one or other sex:

"differences between the genders are encouraged from an early age"


synonyms: gender
Today 09:25 AM

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Withano

Doesnt really say that though? Its an incredibly simplistic 10-word definition which you interpreted in an odd way.

Theres nothing I disagree with in the definition. There are social and cultural differences between gender, gender is encouraged from an early age. You're just ignoring why this has happened.

I'm not ignoring why this has happened, I disagree with your view of why it happened

[Withano]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I'm not ignoring why this has happened, I disagree with your view of why it happened

Well I'm saying it has happened because of brain differences. You shared a link highligting these brain differences. Are you now disagreeing with the link you shared?

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Withano

Well I'm saying it has happened because of brain differences. You shared a link highligting these brain differences. Are you now disagreeing with the link you shared?

The link I posted says there is no male or female brains, they specifically have the "male" and "female" in "'s because of that

“There are not two types of brain”

When the group looked at each individual brain scan, however, they found that very few people had all of the brain features they might be expected to have, based on their sex. Across the sample, between 0 and 8 per cent of people had “all-male” or “all-female” brains, depending on the definition. “Most people are in the middle,” says Joel.

This means that, averaged across many people, sex differences in brain structure do exist, but an individual brain is likely to be just that: individual, with a mix of features. “There are not two types of brain,” says Joel.