@ZanyX #145786
While I appreciate the sentiment, it’s not as simple as that. There are similarities in *some* aspects. But in other ones, trans people share similarities with cis people of their ‘birth sex’. Then there are also some features unique to trans people.
The brain configuration depends on various things: has the trans person started taking hormones, or not? Are they trans man, trans woman, or enby? What is their sexual orientation? When did they first realize they were trans? Etc.
All of these things have had indications that they may be relevant to the question: in what ways may trans people’s brains be different?
And even then, there are major individual differences. Also, humans don’t really have clear-cut ‘female brains’ or ‘male brains’. There are only tendencies towards some sexed differences, but not so large that you can clearly say that there are clearly distinguishable ‘male’ and ‘female’ brains.
Saying a group has brains that are “more similar to” one or the other sex means… what, exactly? Similar in which ways, when even just in a general sense there are simultaneously similarities in one, but also in the other direction? And those similarities change somewhat if hormone therapy is introduced (becoming more in line with the sex the trans person is transitioning into)…
Note: Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that differences don’t exist; but I do see that a lot of people, even those who are trying to make pro-trans points, have a habit of greatly simplifying or even misrepresenting the actual current data on the subject when they talk about sexed or gendered differences in brain structures.
Scientific evidence is great, but the evidence so far in that particular area is actually rather complicated and goes in multiple directions, as I said. It’s not something that can neatly be used to accurately make simple claims about the matter, and even if it was, it’s unlikely transphobes would care.
