Homegrove you disagree with Harvard-studies? Ok you genius. I’ll lump you with Hugo from now on. Ignore.
Since you invoked me:
Have you even looked at the studies you posted? Firstly, although the article is from Harvard, the studies it links to were undertaken by various universities.
Also, I can’t be bothered to read them all, but the first study I clicked on was this one (which was conducted by UCLA). I’m not going to “disagree” with its findings, but its findings don’t actually seem to say what you likely wish it would:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2754583/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19341803/
I quote:
“ We analyzed MRI data of 24 male-to-female (MTF) transsexuals not yet treated with cross-sex hormones in order to determine whether gray matter volumes in MTF transsexuals more closely resemble people who share their biological sex (30 control men), or people who share their gender identity (30 control women). Results revealed that regional gray matter variation in MTF transsexuals is more similar to the pattern found in men than in women. However, MTF transsexuals show a significantly larger volume of regional gray matter in the right putamen compared to men. These findings provide new evidence that transsexualism is associated with distinct cerebral pattern, which supports the assumption that brain anatomy plays a role in gender identity. ”
“Overall, our study provides evidence that MTF transsexuals possess regional gray matter volumes mostly consistent with control males. However, the putamen was found to be “feminized” in MTF transsexuals. That is, the gray matter volume of this particular structure in the MTF transsexual group was both larger than in males and within the average range of females. ”
“ of 22 significantly different regions […] females had the largest gray matter volumes in all but two significant clusters, which were located in the left and right putamen”
To summarise - for 20 out of 22 different regions of the brain they identified, the grey matter of mtf pre-hormonal treatment transsexuals was more similar to men than women.
This is of course only one factor in what will be a large, varied and complex picture, but it seems to indicate a ‘mostly male mind which is only in part feminised’; this appears different to the idea of them having ‘an entirely female, or even mostly female, mind’.
As an additional note, the study does not speculate what significance the pitumen may play in differences in perception of gender. But its role is mostly in controlling motor skills -i.e. planning, learning and executing of movement eg moving your limbs.
It is also involved in many types of learning processes.
Interestingly, it also considered part of “the hate circuit”, playing a role in “the perception of contempt and disgust”.
