Is this how Cross Dressers behave and feel?
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Thrisan — 10 years ago(June 01, 2015 12:06 PM)
http://youtu.be/Erexuu8PTo8
http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22987018
The YouTube video is about how transsexual brains and non-transsexual (cisgender) brains were dissected to find similarities. The article is about how an MRI was used to analyze transsexual brains and cisgender brains.
In both cases the transsexual brain was shown to either match the brain or be nearly identical to the gender of they identify as. So the transsexual female brain matches the cisgender female brain. It's biological, not psychological. -
mephisto__666 — 10 years ago(November 07, 2015 07:24 PM)
The face that there are physiological correlations does not equal causation.
You can see when someone is in love by MRI scans too but no one says that is a purely biological thing with no attachment to environment. It's a leap to say it's biological rather than psychological (putting intersex people to the side). I get tired of people using correlation as though it is causation, it is not the same. If you identify as another gender psychologically, of course your brain will function differently, but that's likely the effect, not the cause. -
Thrisan — 10 years ago(December 27, 2015 01:43 AM)
Being in love changes the levels of natural drugs in your brain, but the study I linked specifies that brain structures are different. So your analogy is false.
If you identify as another gender psychologically, of course your brain will function differently, but that's likely the effect, not the cause.
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nitestar95 — 10 years ago(December 12, 2015 09:34 AM)
The problem with your statement, is that they found lots of straight male brains that had the same similarities to female brains. So what your brains are physically don't necessarily mean you'll identify as female. There's a lot more going on than anyone chooses to admit. So many people feel the need to blame it on someone else. The simple solution is to stop treating people who feel this way as defective. After all, there are plenty of so called normal people who have plenty of mental deficiencies. So nobody's perfect. Until the world can understand that, we'll always have nutcases that want to tell others how wrong they behave, while insisting that they, themselves, are of course perfect. So to those of you who feel the need to insist on butting into other people's lives, all I can say is blow it out your butt. And just leave the rest of the world to live their lives the way they want to. Because it's none of your business.
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Thrisan — 10 years ago(December 27, 2015 01:51 AM)
The problem with your statement, is that they found lots of straight male brains that had the same similarities to female brains.
Firstly, what are you talking about? The study was focused on an area of the brain known to have different structures in cis females and cis males, so your quoted text is irrelevant.
Secondly, I don't think trans people are defective, nor did I say that. You're the one who brought up that word. -
freebird3411 — 10 years ago(July 20, 2015 05:52 PM)
Besides Caitlyn Jenner, who is getting cash for being transgender? Most trans people are everyday folks with a problem most of us can't empathize with. I don't imagine they choose to "pretend to be a freak" where is the advantage in that?
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shyroma — 10 years ago(December 01, 2015 06:59 PM)
Way to state your opinion as if it were fact. Also you can have a degree in sh*t for all I care. Doesn't give you the right to pass judgement on others. It is not a mental illness and I doubt you have a degree in anything besides douchebaggery.
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sms-14 — 10 years ago(December 17, 2015 05:29 PM)
Says you. Those of us with degrees in Sociology, Psychology, and Biological Sciences beg to differ. It is most definitely a mental illness.
IF you
really
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legendaryjj10 — 10 years ago(January 06, 2016 04:11 PM)
Aaannnddd you just outed yourself as an idiot. If you ACTUALLY had a degree in any of those fields you would know that it is NO LONGER considered a mental illness. Psychology is a field which has had massive breakthroughs in the last 4 decades. Try to keep up.
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mephisto__666 — 10 years ago(February 05, 2016 01:58 AM)
Really? Are far as i was aware the WHO still considered transgenderism a mental illness. Body dysmorphic disorder or whatever u like to call it, but an illness anyway. Is it really not considered an abnormality now? I would be interested to know if that was so.