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Fascinating stuff about how the brain works, specific to sexuality.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

His latest book Determined is a great read.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Currently waiting for the audiobook to pop on Libby

Update: it's on Spotify, which apparently does audiobooks now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Anybody got a link to the study? Names?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

This whole class is on YouTube if you search "Stanford human behavioral biology". Highly recommend it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the 6min brain tease. Back when I was in school, we didn't have this information. We were looking for ways to study it. That book he wrote will be a must read.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. I was under the impression that the trans brain theory was debunked ages ago.a

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I'm not certain whether or not it was effectively debunked, but there's a lot of personal belief and interest around the idea that one's gender is what one says it is and no amount of anatomical measurement (genital length, count of brain neurons or genetic flag) is permitted to say whether or not you are what you deem yourself to be.

If such a test did exist, then what's to be said of trans people whose gender expression doesn't line up with the test? What's to be said of cis people in the same boat? Are they trans whether they like it or not? Are they living a lie?

It's a sticky topic either way.