grace-and-ace:

pand3mic-at-the-disco:

zvaigzdelasas:

If any of my followers believes that “brain sex” is a rigid and well defined category check this out

I actually did a study on this in my freshman year of university!

I had to give a ten minute presentation on gender and a) how it’s different from sex, and b) whether or not there’s such thing as a “male” and “female” brain.

I found COUNTLESS studies supporting the idea that the brain itself is unisex- there is very little, if any, difference between “male” and “female” brains, with one exception. I’m by no means a neuroscientist but this is what I understood from this particular article: there’s this tiny part of the hypothalamus (a small part of the brain) that has neutrons in it, and the number of neutrons varies. HOWEVER, when the brains of cis men and women and trans men and women (who had not taken hormones for years prior to the time of death) were studied, it was found that the cis men and trans men had almost identical average neutron counts, and the cis women and trans women had almost identical average neutron counts. So if you’re DMAB but realize at some point that you’re a trans woman, as far as your brain is concerned, you ARE a woman! The same goes for DFAB trans men (intersex/nonbinary individuals weren’t studied, unfortunately).

TLDR; Your brain doesn’t care what you were “born as”, only what you really are!

I’m currently reading a fantastic book that goes through and debunks old studies that “find evidence” to support gender roles. SPOILER ALERT: they were all poorly done studies and their evidence is unsupported bullshit.

Science finally supports that we are all born as blank slates and gender is merely a construct

tehbewilderness:

grumpyoldnurse:

antilla-dean:

Speaking at the British Science Festival, which is taking place in Swansea, she said: “There is no such thing as a male or female brain.

“There is no one aspect of the brain even which if a scientist looked at it they could tell whether it came from a man or a woman.

“We shouldn’t be talking about sex differences in the brain. The brain is a mosaic and every brain is different for every individual.

“Using our neuroscience resources to measure differences is actually a waste of time. It’s more interesting to see what makes individual brains different.”

Prof Rippon believes that studies claiming differences between males and females are due to cultural and environmental factors.

She said that women become “wired” for multi-tasking not because of anything innate, but because that is what society expects of them.

And Prof Rippon said that the segregation between girls and boys even occurs from a young age – with them being given different toys to play with and different books to read – and that could change the way in which their brains develop.

She told an audience at Swansea University that boys’ toys can often be more training-based while girls’ toys are more nurturing.

“I’d say to the scientific community, can we please stop talking about sex? Stop dividing your data into two categories, you are losing so much information,” Prof Rippon said.

“Not only are we feeding the ‘neuro-trash’ industry misunderstanding about what we do, but we are also feeding the inner wimp of people out there who believe that they can or can’t do something based on whether they are male or female.”

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The timing  of the high intensity marketing of fairy princess femininity and the extreme segregation of boy and girl toy lines was no coincidence. Susan Faludi wrote about it in a book called “Backlash”.

No such thing as male or female brain, neuroscientist claims