Trying to link sex, sex chromosomes and sexual dimorphism is also useless for understanding other brain properties.
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To the IDW, trans people and their advocates are destroying the pillars of our society with such free-speech–suppressing, postmodern concepts as: “trans women are women,” “gender-neutral pronouns,” or “there are more than two genders.” Asserting “basic biology” will not be ignored, the IDW proclaims. “Facts don’t care about your feelings.”
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So, no matter what a pundit, politician or internet troll may say, trans people are an indispensable part of our living reality.
Sun seems to be motivated to write this text to argue against the highlighted. being that she is also transgender, arguing against false claims using the basis of science (her background), gives a greater purpose and to back her own safety, etc...
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By Simón(e) D Sun
Dr. Simone D Sun (PHD) is a scientist, artist, and advocate in the J. Tollkuhn Lab at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies, and a 2023 HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow. They received their PhD in the R.W. Tsien Lab at the NYU Neuroscience Institute studying neuroplasticity. This information is important becasue it males her argument in this text more credible. The publisher is SCI AM, a credible becasue of its long history of science publication.
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Stop Using Phony Science to Justify Transphobia
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Let’s just take the most famous example of sexual dimorphism in the brain: the sexually dimorphic nucleus of the preoptic area (sdnPOA). This tiny brain area with a disproportionately sized name is slightly larger in males than in females. But it’s unclear if that size difference indicates distinctly wired sdnPOAs in males versus females, or if—as with the bipotential primordium—the same wiring is functionally weighted toward opposite ends of a spectrum. Throw in the observation that the sdnPOA in gay men is closer to that of straight females than straight males, and the idea of “the male brain” falls apart.
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Contrary to popular belief, scientific research helps us better understand the unique and real transgender experience.
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It is time that we acknowledge this. Defining a person’s sex identity using decontextualized “facts” is unscientific and dehumanizing.
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