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"Transgender women tend to have brain structures that resemble cisgender women, rather than cisgender men....In 1995 and 2000, two independent teams of researchers decided to examine a region of the brain called the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BSTc) in trans- and cisgender men and women... Interestingly, both teams discovered that male-to-female transgender women had a BSTc more closely resembling that of cisgender women than men in both size and cell density, and that female-to-male transgender men had BSTcs resembling cisgender men."

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So we're back to boy brains and girl brains again. Even though we have mountains of science which show us that differences in brain structure across each sex are greater than the differences between sexes. And when the studies account for sexual orientation, we see some difference, although we don't know if that difference comes from life (e.g. the way UK cab drivers brains are different) or birth.

And rather than interrogate it, we'll just easily fall back into "girl brains!" even though we have a long history of women being discriminated against and treated terribly for their biology, which should make us very skeptical of any "girl brains!" claim, just as we should be skeptical of any claims about long-discriminated against groups and biological basis for that discrimination.[/quote]

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